New metropolitan visits Washington parish

WASHINGTON – The recently appointed archbishop of Philadelphia and metropolitan of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the U.S., Borys Gudziak, visited Washington on March 10 and participated in the Sunday liturgy at the Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family and the welcoming reception that followed. In the photograph above, the metropolitan-archbishop-elect is joined in front of the altar on his left by Bishop John Bura and the Rev. Wasyl Kharuk, and on his right by Catholic University Vice-President the Rev. Mark Morozowich and the Rev. Robert Hitchens. Also joining them are a few Ukrainian seminarians and altar boys.