Details: The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Philadelphia is a Ukrainian Catholic cathedral located in the Poplar neighborhood[1]. It was established in 1886 and was designed by Julian K. Jastremsky in the Byzantine Revival style, modeled after St. Sophia (or Hagia Sophia now) in Istanbul (Constantinople)[2]. The...
Details: St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church of St. Michael, constructed in 1923, is a brick church on a cruciform plan with three large onion-shaped domes rooted in the Byzantine tradition, located approximately six kilometres southeast of St. Michael in Lamont County, Alberta. It faces west towards the adjacent cemetery...
Details: Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Church in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Church like many churches in Winnipeg at the time was designed by Father Philip Ruh and built in 1954. Ornamentation of the church on the spires and pillars was completed in 1966 by Sviatoslav Hordynsky. Stained glass windows in the...
Details: Sacred Heart Ukrainian Catholic Church in Gilbert Plains, Manitoba is located at 22 Minto Ave. East[3]. It was built in 1935[1] and is the seat of the pastoral jurisdiction of the Ukrainian Metropolitan Archdiocese of Winnipeg[2]. 🙏🏽Please give proper attribution. Image By Krazytea - Own work, CC...
Details: The Chaldean Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic particular church in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church[1]. It is centered in Iraq, from the northern part to Iran and Lebanon[2], and follows ancient, special traditions of its own[3]. It...
Details: The church of Our Lady of Perpetual Hope is located in the town of Virginia Beach, Virginia. The church is a reflection of Ukranian culture and heritage and serves as a reminder to the people who have migrated to America that they are not alone. Advent Candles are a...
Details: The Church of the Saviour at Berestovo (Ukrainian: Церква Спаса на Берестові, Tserkva Spasa na Berestovi; Russian: Це́рковь Спа́са на Бе́рестове, Tserkov’ Spasa na Berestove) is a church located immediately north of the Monastery of the Caves in an area known as Berestove. Although it is...
Details: Markovac is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Vršac municipality, in the South Banat District of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Romanian ethnic majority. Over the last half a century, the village's population has steadily declined from 1042 in 1961...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches and in some historical cases referred to as Uniates, are twenty-three Eastern...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches and in some historical cases referred to as Uniates, are twenty-three Eastern...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Toronto and Eastern Canada is a Ukrainian Catholic eparchy in the Eastern part of Canada. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Winnipeg....
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Holy Cross Cathedral is a Greek Catholic cathedral of Eparchy of Mukachevo in Uzhhorod, Ukraine. It is dedicated to the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. The Baroque church was built in 1646 at the behest of...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom is the most celebrated Divine Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite. It is named after the anaphora with the same name which is its core part and it is attributed...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! George Alencherry is the Major Archbishop (Head) of the Syro-Malabar Church and is also a cardinal of the Catholic Church. The title of Major Archbishop is essentially equivalent to that of a patriarch. He was...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! In Christian iconography, Christ Pantocrator is a specific depiction of Christ. Pantocrator or Pantokrator, usually translated as "Almighty" or "all-powerful", is derived from one of many names of God in Judaism....
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! A tetrapod is a small, four-legged table ('Tetra", meaning four, and "Pod", for foot) directly in front of the iconostasis (a solid screen of stone, wood, or metal, usually separating the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church was established by +Most Reverend Michael Dudick, D.D. on October 1, 1989 to serve the spiritual needs of Byzantine Catholics in the southeastern part of Virginia and...
In the eastern part of Slovakia there are lots of typical small wooden churches, a mixture of polish, Slovak and Ukrainian culture. they can be Greek Catholic, Russian Orthodox and a few are Roman Catholic. This church is close to the Polish border. If you want to visit it you...
A parish of the Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh, the American branch of the Ruthenian Catholic Church, Holy Ghost Byzantine Catholic Church was founded by Rusyn immigrants on Pentecost Sunday, May 18, 1902. The Rev. John Korotnoki, who came to the United States from the Eparchy of Presov, Austria-...
The essential elements of the public worship of the Catholic Church, in the Sacrifice of the Eucharist and the administration of the sacraments, are the same in all Catholic rites. What is called the "Mass" in the West is called "Divine Liturgy" in the Eastern Churches....
Abaújszolnok is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Hungary. Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén is an administrative county (comitatus or megye) in north-eastern Hungary (commonly called "Northern Hungary"), on the border with Slovakia (Košice Region). It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Nógrád, Heves, Hajdú-Bihar and Szabolcs-...
A church in Krempna, Poland, earlier it belonged to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (now Roman Catholic church). Krempna is a village in Jasło County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland, close to the border with Slovakia. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Krempna. It...
The apse of the Melkite Greek Catholic church of Saint Joseph in the village of Qana, Southern Lebanon, built in 1906. The parish belongs to the Melkite Archeparchy of Tyre. In the front centre of the picture is a statue of the Virgin "Our Lady of Cana of Galilee&...
This Greek Catholic Church was built in 1849. The church was badly damaged during battles for full control of the city between the Free Syrian Army, hardline rebel support, and Bashar Al Assad's forces during the Syrian Civil War. The bulk of the destruction was done in 2013...
