Eparchy of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Eparchy of Saint Josaphat in Parma Пармської єпархії святого Йосафата Eparchia Sancti Iosaphat Parmensis | |
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.jpg) St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in Parma, Ohio | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| Territory | Ohio,Western Pennsylvania,West Virginia,Kentucky,Tennessee,Mississippi,Alabama,Georgia,Florida,North Carolina andSouth Carolina |
| Ecclesiastical province | Ukrainian Catholic Metropolia of Philadelphia |
| Headquarters | Parma, Ohio, United States |
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| Parishes | 47 |
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| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Sui iuris church | Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
| Rite | Byzantine Rite |
| Established | December 5, 1983 |
| Cathedral | St. Josaphat's Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Leo XIV |
| Major Archbishop | Sviatoslav Shevchuk |
| Bishop | Bohdan Danylo |
| Website | |
| Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Parma | |
Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Josaphat in Parma is aUkrainian Greek Catholic Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction oreparchy of theCatholic Church in theUnited States. Itsepiscopal see isParma, Ohio. It was established in 1983 byPope John Paul II. The eparchy encompasses parishes inFlorida,Georgia,North Carolina,Ohio,western Pennsylvania,Tennessee, andWest Virginia. The Eparchy of Saint Josaphat in Parma is asuffragan eparchy in theecclesiastical province of themetropolitanArcheparchy of Philadelphia.
The eparchy is named forSt. Josaphat Kuntsevych,O.S.B.M., who wasEastern Catholicmartyred inanti-Catholic violence byEastern Orthodox following theUnion of Brest.
Ohio became a major site of ethnicUkrainian andRuthenian immigration in the 1870s. By the 1880s,Cleveland andTremont were sites of major Ukrainian communities. Parma and other Ohio towns were further populated byUkrainian diaspora fleeing in the wake of theFirst World War and subsequentincorporation of Ukraine into theSoviet Union.[1] Another major wave of Ukrainian immigration to the United States came afterPresidentHarry S. Truman signed theDisplaced Persons Act in 1948.[2]
The eparchy is one of threesuffragan eparchies of the Ukrainian Catholic Metropolia of Philadelphia, which also includes themetropolitanUkrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, theUkrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Nicholas of Chicago, and theUkrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford.
| Major archeparchy: Kyiv–Galicia |
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