1982: a look back

...and other fraternals

The news at other Ukrainian fraternal organizations also included elections of supreme officers. Msgr. Stephen Chomko took over in 1982 as the new supreme president of the Providence Association of Ukrainian Catholics, the third largest Ukrainian fraternal society.

Ivan Oleksyn was re-elected supreme president of the Ukrainian Fraternal Association at the association's 20th convention held at Verkhovyna, the UFA Resort Center.

Also at the UFA convention, delegates unanimously approved continued talks about the proposed merger of the UNA and UFA.

The Providence Association celebrated its 70th anniversary in 1982 with special programs in several U.S. cities, including New York and with a divine liturgy, reception and presentation of Hulak-Artemovsky's opera "Zaporozhets beyond the Danube," in Philadelphia, the site of Providence headquarters.

1982 was also the year the Providence Association withdrew its representatives from central and local UCCA bodies, citing the U.S. Ukrainian Catholic hierarchs' appeal which stated that the Church cannot become party to the divisiveness of the Ukrainian community. (See "A community still divided.")

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, December 26, 1982, No. 52, Vol. L

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