Galadza appointed full-time professor at Sheptytsky Institute (05/15/94)

Galadza appointed full-time professor at Sheptytsky Institute

OTTAWA - The Rev. Peter Galadza has joined the staff of the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at St. Paul University as its first full-time professor of Byzantine liturgy (effective January 1). The academic search was concluded in September, when Prof. Galadza was selected from among several candidates for the tenure-track position.

The appointment of the first tenure-track professor is a milestone for the Sheptytsky Institute, which hopes to create three or four such positions in the coming year.

In addition to the position in Byzantine Liturgy, there are plans for professorship in Eastern Christian theology and spirituality (the Peter and Doris Kule Chair, for which an academic search is currently under way), Eastern Christian and specifically Ukrainian Church history, as well as professorship in Orthodox-Catholic relations. All of these positions are to be funded by an endowment through the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute Foundation, a federally chartered charity with headquarters in Winnipeg and a board of directors from across Canada.

The Rev. Galadza has been associated with the Sheptytsky Institute since 1989 as a sessional lecturer, both at the institute's Summer Intensive Program in Eastern Theology and Spirituality at Mount Tabor Monastery in California, and on campus at St. Paul University in the 1992-1993 academic year.

He has studied at McGill University in Montreal and the University of Toronto. He holds a master's degree in divinity from the Catholic Theological Union and an M.A. in liturgy from Notre Dame University, and is completing a doctoral dissertation at the University of St. Michael's College, Toronto. His topic is liturgical reform in the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church under Metropolitan Sheptytsky.

The author of a number of scholarly articles in liturgical studies and a public speaker much in demand in North America as well as in Ukraine, the Rev. Galadza taught a 30-hour video course titled "Introduction to Liturgical Studies," which was produce by the Sheptytsky Institute in cooperation with the Institute of Social Communications of St. Paul University. It is currently being used in several venues in Ukraine.

In addition to being lecturer in Byzantine liturgy, the Rev. Galadza is charged with coordinating the liturgical life of the Sheptytsky Institute's Chapel of Ss. Joachim and Anna.

The Rev. Galadza, a priest of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, was ordained by Patriarch Josyf the Confessor in 1981. He is married to Olenka Hanushevska. They have three children: Daniel, Marika and Ivanka.

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