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Any word anywhere on a Metropolitan for the Ruthenians (Pittsburgh)?
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Not yet. There is a recent thread on this same topic here. If you take a look at the Church News section, you'll see that there has been quite a lot of news from the Eastern Catholic Churches recently, but nothing so far about the Pittsburgh Metropolia.
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Who would possibly want the job?
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Stuart,
I'm sure you'll agree that the best bishops are usually the ones who never wanted the job in the first place.
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Oh, I am. But since we don't get to pick, it's definitely the squeaky wheel that gets the grease. And I don't hear any wheels squeaking right now. The tendency has been to play musical chairs--promoting one of the remaining three to the first chair, then raising a senior presbyter to fill the empty slot. I would like to see someone reach down deep and pick a young, dynamic presbyter who will do more than act as receiver of a bankrupt enterprise.
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I hear a lot of speculative, contradictory rumors. Keep in mind that Rome comes to a halt in the summer months. Too hot to do anything.
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In support of the above statement of the good Deacon. They have left town. Rome is closed for the summer holidays.
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Who would possibly want the job? Shhh! Don't say anything. We might get exactly what we are asking for. 
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Maybe we could elect someone and not tell Rome. It might be years before they get back to us, by which time our new Metropolitan could have conducted a thorough overhaul of the Ruthenian Church (at which point Rome will say, "What a great appointment! Glad we thought of it".
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ROFL 
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I was gonna suggest that, but since we seem to have our own issues these days with the same problem over in ACROD, I thought better of it! (Please don't suggest we get together on that over a cup of tea or a bottle of slivovitsa more likely. It wouldn't work out.....but it would put a scare into a whole lot of folks!)
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The North American Carpatho-Rusyn Ruthenian Greek Catholic Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Patriarchal Church of Johnstown and Pittsburgh.
It's enough to send a chill up any Curial spine.
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It might chill spines not just at the Vatican, but the Phanar too!
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