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Eparch

in the Byzantine Empire, the ruler of the city of Constantinople and its environs.

The eparch was directly subordinate to the emperor. He directed a large staff of officials and was the head of a military detachment. He fulfilled judicial and police functions and was in charge of the prison. He was also responsible for provisioning the city and for regulating artisans’ production, trade (including prices), and public spectacles. The office of eparch was eliminated after 1204.

The term “eparch” was used in the 14th century, but mainly as a court title.

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Eparch Velychkovsky is the second person in Western Canada to reach the ranks of the "beati." He shares the honour with Bishop Nicetas Budka, eparch of Canada's Ukrainians from 1912 to 1927, who was martyred in a Soviet labour camp in 1946 or 1947.

A saint for Western Canada. (News in Brief: Canada)

John Pazak, CSSR (Redemptorists), 54, was made Eparch (bishop) for Slovak-rite Catholics in Toronto, a position that had been vacant since the retirement in 1996 of Eparch Michael Rusnak, CSsR.

Retired and new bishops

"We are profoundly afflicted by the fact that the border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea has been going on for weeks, causing suffering to millions of people," a brief but substantial document stated, signed by Orthodox Patriarch Filipos, Mufti Alamin Usman, Catholic Eparch Zekarias Yohannes of Asmara, and Evangelical leader Reverend Ogbarebi Hibties.

Two poor nations at war

To show their monastic solidarity, Trappist monks, former members of the monastery, came from Oka, Quebec, to participate in the official opening and blessing of the Monastery on September 18, 1999, by Bishop Cornelius Pasichny, OSBM, Eparch of Toronto.

Ukrainian monks settle in Canada

Such a new affirmation had been requested by three bishops (Roman Danylak of Toronto, Colin Campbell of Antigonish N.S., and Basil Filevich, Eparch emeritus of Saskatoon, SK) because of the misuse made of this statement--especially clause 26--by theologians, diocesan and national spokesmen, authors of religious education texts, directors of marriage courses, writers of catechisms and originators of official documents, including the Ethics Guide issued by the Catholic Health Association of Canada.

Canada: bishops decide to say nothing (on the 1968 encyclical Humanae vitae)

Those latter include Bishop Danylak, who rejected the curriculum in his policy statement, and Bishop Basil Filevich, retired eparch of Saskatoon, as well as the religious education committee of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C.

Update on the Ontario Catholic AIDS curriculum

Of the few bishops who had been informed before publication, Bishops Colin Campbell of Antigonish and Basil Filevich, retired Eparch of Saskatoon, immediately thought it a good idea to revisit Humanae vitae.

Humanae vitae and the bishops: an update

The following fax arrived from Bishop Basil Filevich, Eparch Emeritus of Saskatoon:

Humanae vitae - 30 years: choose life