Parish Activity

On Sunday 15th of July, 2018 clergy, parishioners with their families and friends gathered to celebrate the Parish Feast Day of Saints Peter and Paul. This year we celebrated 25th Anniversary of Bishop Peters Episcopal Ordination and his 75th birthday. ...

As has been our custom over the last many years, the clergy of the Ukrainian Eparchy gathered in Millgrove for the annual retreat and soborchyk of our Eparchy. Bishop Ken, Eparch of New Westminster in Canada, led the retreat. This ...

“Soborchyk” is an Ukrainian word which means a small sobor or assembly. It is a church term which means consultation or discussion. About 25 priests, deacons, sisters, and wives of clergy along with Bishop Peter and Bishop Ken met in ...

On Thursday, 7th June 2018, Fr. Taras Gorpynyak of our parish in Wayville, South Australia, was elevated to the level of Canon in our Eparchy in a ceremony at Pallotti College in Millgrove, Victoria. Read more: Fr. Taras honoured on ...

We warmly welcome Bishop Ken Nowakowski to Australia and the North Melbourne Parish. Bishop Ken Nowakowski is the Eparch of our faithful in the Eparchy of New Westminster in British Columbia, Canada. He is very active in our Synod. He ...

On 27th May 1993 in St. George’s Cathedral in Lviv, Patriarch Myroslav Lubachivsky ordained Taras Gorpynyak to the priesthood. In 1999, Fr. Taras arrives with his family to serve in Australia. He spends some time in Melbourne, then Sydney, and ...

3rd -10th May 2018, Bishop Peter Stasiuk attended the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ACBC) at Mary McKillop Place in North Sydney. This is the 25th year that Bishop Peter has attended this yearly conference. There are various commissions which the ...

13th May 2018 was “Mothers’ Day” in Australia. The whole country came out to celebrate and thank mothers in many diverse ways. The more important moments were held within individual families. Our Ukrainian Catholic Church chose to thank our mothers ...

Our Ardeer Parish welcomed its new, long awaited parish priest on April 25, 2018. Fr Andriy, his wife, Olesia, children, Andriy Lev, Yeremia and Bohuslava arrived on a late evening flight from Lviv, Ukraine. In a sense it was a ...

Today we are celebrating and thanking God for a Priestly vocation. God spoke to Zenon Chorkawyj, as young man, and asked him to follow Him, to feed His sheep, to pastor His flock, to bring the good news to those ...

The Rt Rev Zenon Chorkawyj was born on the 5th February, 1936 in the Ternopil Region of Western Ukraine. In April 1944, during the Nazi German occupation of Ukraine, he was taken with his parents to Metman, in Germany, to ...