This statement was issued by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30). It was written by Archbishop Borys Gudziak, head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in America, along with Bishop A. Elias Zaidan and Catholic Relief Services President and CEO Sean Callahan. The St. Mary of Egypt Social Justice Fellowship reads this through a distinctly Ukrainian Catholic experience—shaped by generations of environmental destr

On June 6th, 2019, I had the opportunity to present on a youth panel during a conference at the Catholic University of America. All of us were supposed to consider the future of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in America. I spoke on behalf of the St. Mary of Egypt Social Justice Fellowship, at the invitation of Fr. Mark Morozowich, dean of theology at CUA, and Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak, who had been enthroned as the Archeparch of Philadelphia and the United St

On March 10th 2019, Metropolitan Borys (Gudziak) was interviewed by Ruslan Petrychka on the Voice of America. His Eminence was recently named the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia, whose jurisdiction covers the entire United States. Previously, he was the Ukrainian-Greek-Catholic Bishop of Paris and Western Europe. Bishop Borys was born, raised, and studied in the United States before moving to Ukraine in the 1990s to build the Ukrainian Catholic University.