Return of St. George complex in Lviv reported imminent (07/22/90)

Return of St. George complex in Lviv reported imminent

JERSEY CITY, N.J. - As The Weekly was going to press, it learned from Ukrainian Catholic Church representatives in Lviv via the Ukrainian Catholic Press Bureau in Rome that Bishop Andriy Horak of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (formerly of the Moscow Patriarchate, currently Ukrainian Exarchate) has agreed to vacate the complex of the Cathedral of St. George in that western Ukrainian city.

The Rome bureau reported this development on July 19.

Reportedly, Bishop Horak is awaiting the completion of renovations to the parish home attached to the Church of St. Nicholas in Lviv. The Lviv City Council had offered the church to Bishop Horak some time ago in an effort to speed the return of the Cathedral of St. George to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

In related news, it has also been reported that the Lviv City Council plans to offer an additional residence in the cathedral complex to Archbishop Volodymyr Sterniuk, locum tenens (official representative) of the major archbishop of Lviv, Cardinal Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky. The residence is in the garden area of the complex and is to be made available to Archbishop Sterniuk within the coming weeks.

The 82-year old archbishop has for the past 40 years lived and celebrated mass in a 14-square-meter room in Lviv.

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