St. Volodymyr's Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral (Toronto)

St. Volodymyr's Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral is a Ukrainian Orthodox

Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada is an Eastern Orthodox Church in Canada, primarily serving Ukrainian Canadians. Its former name was the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of Canada ...

Cathedral

A cathedral is a Christian church that contains the seat of a bishop...

in Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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. It is located on Bathurst Street just to the west of Kensington Market

Kensington Market

Kensington Market is a distinctive multicultural neighbourhood in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Market is an older neighbourhood and one of the city's most well-known. In November 2006, it was designated a National Historic Site of Canada. Robert Fulford wrote in 1999 that "Kensington...

. The majority of the first Ukrainian immigrants to Canada were Eastern Catholic believers with only a small fraction belonging to the Eastern Orthodox faith. This changed with later waves of immigration that saw more people coming from the Orthodox east. The first Ukrainian Orthodox in Toronto was established in 1926. For several years they met in rented halls and in churches of other denominations. The land on Bathurst was purchased in 1935 and work on the cathedral began in 1946 and it was completed two years later. The cathedral is in the standard Byzantine style used throughout Ukraine.

Bishops

St. Volodymyr's Cathedral has been the Cathedral seat for the following bishops of the UOCC:

+Metropolitan Michael (Theodot Khoroshy)
Metropolitan Michael (Theodot Khoroshy)
Metropolitan Michael , was born in Fedorivka, near Chyhyryn, in what was then the Russian Empire, on July 10, 1885. He died in Toronto on May 5, 1977 and is buried in the Prospect Cemetery in Toronto...

+Archbishop Nicholas (Debryn)

+Metropolitan Wasyly
Metropolitan Wasyly
Metropolitan Wasyly, OC was the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada from 1985 until his death in 2005....

(actually resided in Winnipeg (where the UOCC's head offices are located), due to the ailing health of Metropolitan Andrew (Metiuk))

Archbishop Yurij
Archbishop Yurij (Kalistchuk)
Archbishop Yurij is Archbishop of Toronto in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada.-Youth:...

(Archbishop Yurij lives and serves Toronto and the East, but remains bishop of Saskatoon in name due to the Greek Metropolis (also united with Constantinople) having their headquarters in Toronto)

(Note; + refers to deceased)

Bishops

See also