Episcopal consecration

On the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, 12 July 2013 (according to the Julian calendar used in the Eastern Church), the Episcopal consecration will be held in the Monastery Church of the Nativity of Christ in Drohobych. The consecrator will be Archbishop Marcian OSBMr, Head of the UO GCC, and the co-consecrators will be the Bishops of the UO GCC.

The candidate for the episcopate is the monk-priest Demetrius Andrew Karpa OSBMr.

He joined the Basilian Order in 2000. He finished theological studies in Rome and underwent sound theological and spiritual formation in Lvov-Bryukhovychi. He was ordained a priest by the deceased Archbishop Michael in Lvov-Bryukhovychi.

A true bishop, whose task nowadays is to preserve the purity of the faith and morals, urgently needs a prayer community and the unity of the Spirit with other brethren. If he wants to remain faithful to Christ, he must reckon with persecution and martyrdom like the Apostles. “He who endures to the end will be saved.”

May the new bishop endure on the way of following Christ to the end and be saved.

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