Ukrainian Orthodox Greek Catholic
Archdiocese of the Americas

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Ukrainian Orthodox Greek Catholic
Archdiocese of the Americas

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His Beatitude Metropolitan Archbishop +Amvrosij


His Beatitude has extensive leadership in the Eastern and Western Church. He is a Defender of the Papal throne and is a Canon Lawyer.  

The Archbishop is the founder of the Institute for Eastern Christian Studies  which teaches priests, seminarians, religious and lay people Church history and strategies on how to unite East and West.  


His Beatitude received the monastic Great Schema on the Holy Mountain, Mount Athos, as foretold by Archbishop St. John Maximovitch, who had tonsured him a Riassaphore monk.


Archbishop +Amvrosij has over 80 priests throughout the world and continues to assist the Church in bringing VALID Sacraments to every corner of the world.  


Graduate of the John XXIII Institute for Eastern Christian Studies at Fordham University and have doctoral degrees in Theology and in Psychology.   

 

 

His Eminence Metropolitan +MICHAEL (Kirkland)


 Metropolitan Archbishop +Kirkland has written a book called:  Being Catholic ...that All May Be One!

   

The Orthodox Church has had no liturgical reform. It maintains a richly beautiful liturgical tradition with many customs dating back to Apostolic times, including fasting on Wednesdays and Fridays, receiving Communion on an empty stomach, ancient liturgical prayers and chants, frequent sacramental confession, standing or kneeling during services instead of sitting, and baptism by full immersion. 


In the Orthodox Church there is no universal liturgical language (such as Latin in the Roman Catholic Church); it has always been our tradition to pray in the local language. Orthodoxy does not deny the ancient practices of married Deacons, Priests and Bishops - and - the ministry of Deaconesses, while also valuing and encouraging celibacy for those who are called to the monastic life (cf. St. Matthew 19 : 10–12). 

Orthodox Church of America

 His Grace Chorbishop +Michael E. Wiest

Academic Dean


Chorbishop +Michael E. Wiest was ordained by Archbishop Mario Perressin of L'aquila, Italy at the Basilica of St. Apollinare  in Rome, Italy on December 8, 1997.


 Chorbishop +Wiest has an extensive higher education background before entering the seminary including the University of Chicago, department of Classics, Medieval studies; Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management; and Yale Law School.


After further discernment, Michael Wiest entered the seminary in Rome, Italy and studied at the Pontifical Athenaeum of the Holy Cross.  He earned his STB at the Pontifical Lateran University and also studied Canon Law.

In 2025 Father Wiest was received into the Orthodox Greek Catholic Church established by Patriarch Josyf Cardinal Slipyj.  This is the Orthodox Greek Catholic Metropolia Province of North and South America and dependencies.  Later in 2025, Father Wiest was then elevated to Chorbishop with valid ordination and consecration and appointed as Academic Dean of the Institute for Eastern Christian Studies.

 

Chorbishop +Michael speaks nine languages fluently.

Josyf Cardinal Slipyj

Founding Father


 Patriarch  JOSYF was  a  man  of  strong  character  and  unbending  loyalty  — a  staunch  defender of the  faith.  On  account of this  he  suffered  18 years  of imprisonment  in  Russian  prison  camps  but  continued,  throughout  his  life, to fight  undauntedly for the rights of his Church  and  nation.  


During his 21 years  in  freedom,  Patriarch  Josyf consistently  strived  for  the  establishment of a single Patriarchate of the Ukrainian Church for both Faithful of the Ukrainian Catholic Church and Ukrainian Orthodox Church and its formal recognition by both the Vatican and the Phanar. 

More info on Patriarch Slipyj
Institute for Eastern Christian Studies

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Archidocese of North and South America

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