Ukrainian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church
Independent sect of Eastern Catholicism founded in 2019 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Ukrainian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church (UOGCC) is an Sect Eastern Independent Catholic religious that was established by Basilian priests, predominantly from Slovakia, who schismated from the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and declared the creation of the new church in 2009 based in Pidhirtsi, Ukraine.
Ukrainian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church | |
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Abbreviation | UOGCC |
Classification | Independent Catholic |
Orientation | Eastern Catholic · Conclavist |
Polity | Episcopal |
Patriarch | Elijah Anthony Dohnal |
Region | Ukraine |
Language | Church Slavonic and Ukrainian |
Liturgy | Byzantine Rite |
Origin | August 11, 2009 Pidhirtsi, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine |
Separated from | Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
Other name(s) | Pidhirtsi Fathers Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate |
Official website | http://www.uogcc.org.ua/en http://vkpatriarhat.org/en/ |
The movement is not officially recognized in Ukraine by the religious community or state authorities. The organization was officially excommunicated from the Catholic Church and their bishops' consecrations declared invalid. The movement's seven founding self-consecrated "bishops" were formerly priests of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and former members of the Order of Saint Basil the Great. In 2009, the organization announced that it succeeded the "heretical" Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.[1]
The organization is also known as Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate or Pidhirtsi Fathers.[1]
The movement has been described by The New York Times as anti-European Union and anti-Ukrainian as well as pro-Yanukovych and pro-Russian, as well as fervently against homosexuality which it often accuses its opponents of spreading.[2]
In 2019, the sect elected Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, as Pope, thus switching from a sedevacantist to a conclavist position.[3][4] There is no evidence that Viganò ever accepted the results of this election.