EWTN to Televise Live the Divine Liturgy Celebrating the Arrival of the First Greek Catholic Bishop in America
Philadelphia – EWTN, the Catholic Cable Network, will provide live coverage of the Centennial Divine Liturgy giving thanks for the arrival of the first Greek Catholic bishop in America, the Most Rev. Stephen Sotor Ortynsky, OSBM in 1907.
The coverage will begin at 1:00 PM ET on Sunday, September 30th and will be televised from the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Philadelphia, PA.
Scheduled to participate in the Divine Liturgy are the Apostolic Nuncio, the Most Rev. Pietro Sambi, seven cardinals and approximately one hundred Eastern and Latin Bishops. Bishop Ortynsky strove to build the Eastern Catholic Church in America. The fruits of his labors helped establish the Ukrainian Catholic Church and the Byzantine Catholic Church here in America. These two Churches are part of the twenty-one Churches of the Catholic Church. After the Latin Church the Ukrainian Church is the largest in the world.
The celebrants for the Divine Liturgy include His Beatitude, Lubomyr Cardinal Husar, Major Archbishop of Kyiv and Halych, the entire Synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the Council of Hierarchs of the Byzantine (Ruthenian) Catholic Church, and visiting Hierarchs.
EWTN will provide an encore presentation of this Divine Liturgy on October 1 at 12:00 (Eastern Time) (Sunday night at midnight).