1980: an overview

Historic church

The first Ukrainian Catholic church in America, St. Michael's Byzantine-Ukrainian Catholic Church in Shenandoah, Pa., was completely destroyed by fire on April 7.

The historic church was built in 1885, a year after St. Michael's parish was established by the Rev. Ivan Voliansky, who had been appointed to serve Ukrainian Catholics in this country by the Metropolitan of Lviv, Sylvester Sembratovych.

The parishioners of St. Michael's have vowed to rebuild the church, which was located in the town known as the cradle of organized Ukrainian American community life.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, December 28, 1980, No. 31, Vol. LXXXVII

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