Special Events of the Eparchy

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During his visit to Australia Bishop Bryan Bayda from Canada will meet with youth in Geelong and give the great retreats in Wayville. On Sunday 18th March Bishop Bryan Bayda from Canada will visit Protection of the Mother of God ...

Join us in an informal youth get-together with Bishop Bryan Bayda in Melbourne on Thursday 15th of March. We are honoured to have Bishop Bryan, head of the Youth Commission of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, the Eparch of Ukrainian Catholics ...

Christmas message of Fr. Brian Kelty, administrator of the st. Peter and Paul Parish in North Melbourne. Christ is born! Glorify Him! The feast of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ is one of our church’s major feasts. As ...

On November 26, 1998, the president of Ukraine issued a decree that designated a National Day in Memory of the Victims of the Famine of 1932-33, that is to be marked annually on the fourth Saturday of November. On October ...

Canberra Parish is celebrating its Praznik – St Volodymyr on the weekend of 29th-30th July. A Pilgrimage has been organized to include sight seeing of Canberra. The pilgrimage leaves at 8.00am on Friday 28th July and returns approx. 5.00 pm ...

On Sunday, 19th February, 2017, the Victorian Ukrainian Catholic Church celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the missionary activities of the Basilian Sisters in Australia. Four young sisters came to Australia in 1967 at the invitation of Bishop Ivan Prasko. They ...

The formal water blessing was held on Sunday, 22nd January, at the North Melbourne Cathedral this year. This year our Victorian communities had the pleasure to host His Excellency Mykola Kulinich and his wife Olena for a number of meetings ...

During the last clergy conference in December 2016 much time was devoted to the youth apostolate in our church. Those present stated that the priests, deacons, and sisters need to better understand the phenomenon of modern youth culture. We all ...