06.12.2007, [17:52] // UGCC // RISU.ORG.UA
Lviv – The 37th session of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Kyiv-Halych High Episcopacy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), which took place in Briukhovychi on the outskirts of western Ukrainian Lviv on 28-29 November, gathered 14 hierarchs serving in Ukraine. Members of the Metropolitan’s Synod listened to a range of reports on church life and approved a text of the Address of the Synod of Bishops of the Kyiv-Halych Episcopacy of the UGCC on the spread of HIV-AIDS in Ukraine. ugcc.org.ua posted the news.
Hierarch Hlib (Lonchyna) was requested to select members for a work group he will head which will develop a UGCC draft strategy on HIV/AIDS prevention.
Also, members of the 37th session of the Holy Synod resolved to establish a Bureau on Ecological Issues of the Kyiv-Halych Episcopacy of the UGCC based at the Ecological Center within the Ivano-Frankivsk Eparchy of the UGCC. From now on, managing bishops will appoint those in charge of ecology in eparchies and exarchates of the Kyiv-Halych High Episcopacy.
• http://www.ugcc.org.ua/ukr/press-releases/article;6101/