WHAT'S AT STAKE IN RUSSIA'S WAR AGAINST UKRAINE?
Thursday, March 27, 5:30 PM EDT
Sever Hall 202, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA & Livestreamed
Archbishop Borys Gudziak PhD ’92
Metropolitan-Archbishop, Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia; President, Ukrainian Catholic University
In the fall of 2013, Ukrainians began a popular uprising, later known as the Revolution of Dignity: the culmination of a decades-long journey from post-totalitarian, post-Soviet fear to God-given dignity and freedom. However, this pursuit of freedom was punished immediately by Russia seeking to reestablish an empire of Soviet proportions. Russia annexed Crimea and occupied the Donbas. In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale war against Ukraine.
This war is about people, their longing for freedom, their inherent dignity, and their right to worship as they choose - for all Ukrainian Churches and denominations, and especially for the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
Co-sponsored by Christ the King Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, the Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Hellenic College Holy Cross, the Melkite Catholic Eparchy of Newton, the Nova Forum at USC, and the Ukrainian Catholic University
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Mykola Swarnyk, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
METROPOLITAN-ARCHBISHOP BORYS GUDZIAK PHD ‘92
Archbishop Gudziak is Metropolitan for Ukrainian Catholics in the United States, President of the Ukrainian Catholic University of Lviv, Ukraine, and Chair of the UCCB Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development. After receiving his S.T.B. from the Pontifical Urban University, the S.T.L. from the Pontifical Oriental Institute, and a PhD in history from Harvard, he has published Crisis and Reform: the Kyivan Metropolitanate, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the Genesis of the Union of Brest, as well as numerous articles in academic journals. Tasked with building a Catholic University from the foundation of the Lviv Theological Academy in 1993, he became the University’s Rector and currently serves as the President of its Senate. His honorary doctorates include those from Notre Dame, the Catholic University of America, and the Charles Borromeo Seminary.