PHILADELPHIA – The Vatican Information Service announced on April 16 that the Holy Father has accepted the resignation for medical reasons of the Most Rev. Stefan Soroka, archbishop of Philadelphia for Ukrainians and metropolitan for the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the U.S.A.
Pope Francis has declared the Archeparchy of Philadelphia as “sede vacante.” Bishop Andriy Rabiy has been appointed by Pope Francis as the apostolic administrator of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia until the appointment of the new archeparch.