www.byzcath.org Forums Faith & Christian Life Parish Life & Evangelization 125th Anniversary SS. Peter and Paul's Ukrainian Catholic Church,

‎2012 is the 125th anniversary of SS. Peter and Paul Greek Catholic Church of Jersey City, NJ, the oldest Eastern Rite Catholic in the state. It was founded in 1887 and in its early years was a joint venture between Ukrainians and Rusyns. One of its founders was a Lemko, Pavlo Filak, from the village of Luhy, Gorlice District (present-day Poland). He worked in a sugar factory "11 hours a day for 14 cents an hour." ("Commemorative Book of Saints Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1887-1987")

That sounds to be how the Ukrainian Greek-Catholics and the Carpatho-Rusyn Byzantine Catholic Churches both had their starts in this country were through shared parishes before they branched off and became two separate Churches, and went with their own traditions, and their own ways of celebrating the DL.