Committee seeks artifacts for exhibit (09/22/96)

Committee seeks artifacts for exhibit

RIVER GROVE, Ill. - In October of 1996, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Ukraine and the diaspora will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the All-Ukrainian Orthodox Church Sobor held in 1921 and the creation of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC).

The commemoration of this sacred event also calls to mind the fundamental destruction by the Communist government of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, its hierarchy, the members of the intelligentsia who served as lay leaders of the Church and its faithful.

In order to honor the memory of those who gave their lives for an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and in order to ensure that their struggle is recorded in the annals of history for future generations, a photo exhibition will take place in Kyiv. The exhibit, which will take place as part of the many activities planned to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the UAOC, is titled "Destroyed Churches and Persecuted Leaders of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church."

Members of the Ukrainian community whose fate was tied with the activities of the UAOC are being asked to help in the efforts of the committee organizing the exhibition, to send their precious items to the committee in the U.S. or in Kyiv. The items will become important artifacts of the UAOC and useful information for the present builders of an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church and state. The financial sponsor of the photo exhibition is St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Boston (the Rev. Archimandrite Andriy Partykevich Ph.D., pastor).

In the U.S., contact: UAOC Commemoration Committee in the U.S.A., 2635 Spruce St., River Grove, IL 60171; telephone/fax, (708) 456-4047.