Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family
Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family in 2012
38°56′23″N77°00′13″W / 38.9396°N 77.0035°W /38.9396; -77.0035
Location	4250 Harewood Rd. NE Washington, D.C.
Country	United States
Denomination	Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Website	www.ucns-holyfamily.org
History
Founded	September 1949
Architecture
Architect	Myroslav Nimciv
Completed	1999
Administration
Diocese	Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia
Clergy
Bishop	Most Rev.Borys Gudziak
Priest(s)	Fr. Robert Hitchens Fr. Wasyl Kharuk

TheUkrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family is aCatholicchurch located nearUniversity Heights,Washington, D. C. The shrine is part of theUkrainian Greek Catholic Church, asui iurisEastern Catholic church in communion with theBishop of Rome. The shrine is administered by theArcheparchy of Philadelphia.

The Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family is located immediately west of theCatholic University of America campus and roughly 250 feet north of theSaint John Paul II National Shrine. TheBasilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is located roughly a half a mile south along the east side of Harewood Road.

EparchConstantine Bohachevsky, the first Ukrainianmetropolitan bishop in theUnited States, created Holy Family Parish in 1949 to serve the Ukrainian Greek Catholic population in Washington, D.C., as the nearest Ukrainian parishes to the Washington area until then had been outside of the District of Columbia. Fr. Vladimir Wozniak was the parish's firstpastor. The parish would relocate four times until acquiring its current site 1975. In 1976, BishopBasil H. Losten authorized the construction of the shrine, naming it "The Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family."^[1]

The cornerstone of the Lower Church was blessed byPope John Paul II in 1979, and the Great Upper Church of theNational Shrine was completed in 1999.

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