TORONTO – Patriarch Sviatoslav, primate of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC), on December 8 presented the highest distinction awarded by the UGCC – the Order of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky – to the Institute of Eastern Christian Studies named after Metropolitan Andrey.
The Sheptytsky Institute is an autonomous academic unit of the Faculty of Theology of the University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto. The ceremony was held at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Philadelphia.