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I would like to read a book on this famous man. I see his picture at many parishes, and I know from other Ukrainian CAtholics that he is greatly admired. I haven't been able to find anything of detail on the internet.

Any books or links would be greatly appreciated!

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Dear Andriy,

I think that you might find the following Ukrainian website extremely useful:

http://www.unicorne.org/Orthodoxy/

A former poster who was with us for many years, Dr. Alexander Roman, writes for it. His many articles there are incredibly well written and are easy to understand. I believe that he is also available through that website to answer any and all of your questions. He is a virtual treasure house of information, and I do not believe that there is a question that he cannot answer. He will know about the above book, I am sure.

In Christ,
Alice

P.S. ...and don't be intimidated by his 'credentials'...he is extremely friendly, down to earth, and relates very well with young people your age, because he teaches.

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Eastern Christian Publications has a biography of Metropolitan Andrew:

https://ssl.webvalence.com/ecommerce/kiosk.lasso?merchant=ecpubs&kiosk=books&class=2

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That book is a little old. I would recommend the following from CIUS:
http://www.ualberta.ca/CIUS/church/c-publications/c-publications1.htm


It is expensive, so why don't you just use the St. Vladimir Institute Library in Toronto and borrow it. Just phone 416-923-3318 and ask for the library. The Ukrainian Geneological Society also meets at St. Vlad's and their meetings are held in English.

Christian Social Ethics in Ukraine: The Legacy of Andrei Sheptytsky
by Andrii Krawchuk

Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky (1865-1944) headed the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Galicia for almost half a century. He was not only and outstanding ecclesiastical, cultural and civic leader, but also a thinker and writer of distinction. Grappling with the social and political problems that beset his religious community, Sheptytscky
applied key priciples of Christian social ethics to such issues as patriotism, inter-ethnic relations, church-state relations, the ideal of church unity, Soviet Communism, nationalism, religious liberty, ideological atheism, and Nazism.

Whether in pastoral letters that probed the Christian life through ethical reflection on social and political reality or in personal representations to such figures as Emperor Frances Joseph, Pope Pius X, Khrushchev, Hitler, and Stalin, Sheptytsky promoted a vision of human life that was grounded in the practical wisdoom of both Eastern and Western Christendom.

Andrii Krawchuk offers the first comprehensive scholarly study of this complex sphere of Metropolitan Sheptytsky's thought and activity. This pioneering analysis of how Christian moral teaching was applied within an Eastern European context breaks new ground in out understanding of the churches that survived Soviet persecution.

Co-published with the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian and with the Basilian Press.

March 1997
Cloth $49.95

410 pp.
ISBN 1-895571-13-8

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The English translation of Fr. Cyril Korolovesky's book Metropolitan Andrew Sheptytsky is a very good book, and delves into both the external and internal difficulties the Metropolitan faced and usually conquered.
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Someone sent me a private message asking for help in locating a certain document to do with Metropolitan Andrew. I regret to say that while the existence of the permission mentioned is unquestioned, I have no idea where - or if - the document may be found. However, it is at least possible that there is a copy in the archives in L'viv - incredible as this may seem, the Soviets seem to have kept the archives intact (although not, of course, in the Metropolitan's palace).

Serge Keleher


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