New Ukrainian bishops in Connecticut, Pennsylvania

Published: 2006-03-09

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Bishop Paul P. Chomnycky was installed Feb. 20 as the fourth bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford, Conn. The following day the new auxiliary bishop of the Ukrainian Archeparchy of Philadelphia, Bishop John Bura, was ordained. Cardinal Lubomyr Husar of Kiev-Halych, Ukraine, leader of the world's Ukrainian Catholics, presided at both ceremonies. In the Eastern Catholic churches, dioceses and archdioceses are called eparchies and archeparchies. Canadian-born Bishop Chomnycky, 51, was in charge of Ukrainian Catholics in Great Britain before his appointment to Stamford. He succeeds Bishop Basil H. Losten, who had headed the Stamford Eparchy since 1977 and retired in January. Bishop Bura was born in Germany in 1944 but raised in the United States after his family moved to New Jersey in 1950. Before he was made a bishop, he was pastor of St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Parish in Wilmington, Del.

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