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This year we celebrate the establishment of the Byzantine Ruthenian Church Exarchate in the United States and our first Bishop, Most Reverend Basil Takach.

The first weekend of the Great Fast, February 16-18th, thirty-eight women gathered together under the auspices of Father Lukas Mitro...

We are pleased to share with you the four individuals appointed by Bishop Robert to a reconstituted Eparchial Liturgical Commission. 

Wishing to foster religious life among Byzantine Catholic faithful in the United States, Pope Paul VI issued the decree "Christi Ecclesia" officially establishing the Eparchy of Parma on Feb. 21, 1969.

In celebration of Catholic Schools Week, an annual event held from January 28 to February 3, 2024, Bishop Robert made a special visit to St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Elementary School in Cleveland, Ohio.

On January 22, Father Joseph Marquis and his wife Mary visited the Chancery, sharing a relic of Pope St. John Paul II’s pericardium which is housed at All Saints Shrine at Sacred Heart Parish in Livonia, Michigan.

According to Byzantine tradition, the discipline of the fast consists of three parts: Corporal (bodily) fast...

This collection supports the training of seminarians and lay leaders, supporting social service programs, youth ministry, pastoral and catechetical centers, schools, church construction...

In my teaching here, I wish to give specific focus to each of these components of our faith-life as we look to an eparchial Church that grows and thrives in the spirit of what Pope Francis calls missionary discipleship. 

Currently, we are at 68% of our goal of $220,000 with $149,898 raised and an additional $7405 pledged. We have had 500 very generous donors. Congratulations to these three parishes for exceeding their parish goals: Byzantine Catholic Outreach in Iowa, St. Nicholas, Munster, & Dormition of the Mother of God, Cleveland.

The fasts of the liturgical year are to be kept in accordance with the Norms of Particular Law of the Byzantine Metropolitan Church sui iuris of Pittsburgh.

Bishop Robert Pipta announces Fr. Jan Maturkanic as Protosyncellus, Fr. Thomas Loya as Syncellus for Communications, and Fr. Robert Jager as Bishop’s Delegate for Clergy.