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Eparchy of Saint Nicholas of Chicago Eparchia Sancti Nicolai Chicagiensis Ucrainorum | |
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Location | |
Territory | Western United States, all of the Midwest (except Ohio), Alaska, and Hawaii |
Ecclesiastical province | Ukrainian Catholic Metropolia of Philadelphia |
Headquarters | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
Population - Catholics | 12,500 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Sui iuris church | Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
Rite | Byzantine Rite |
Established | July 14, 1961 |
Cathedral | St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Major Archbishop | Sviatoslav Shevchuk |
Bishop | Venedykt Aleksiychuk, M.S.U. |
Website | |
Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Nicholas of Chicago |
The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Nicholas of Chicago is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church in the whole Western United States and Midwest (except Ohio), Alaska, and Hawaii. As of 2020[update], the St. Nicholas Eparchy has 43 churches and missions in the western USA.
The bishop of the eparchy is Venedykt Aleksiychuk as of April 20, 2017[update]. St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral is the mother church of the eparchy. The Eparchy of Chicago is a suffragan eparchy in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archeparchy of Philadelphia.