Mr. Speaker. as 1984 approaches we will be encountering the 100th anniversary of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the United States. It was in 1884 that the first Ukrainian Catholic priest left the Ukraine to attend to the pastoral needs of Ukrainian immigrants. Arriving in the United States. Father Ivan Voliansky established the first Ukrainian Catholic parish in Shenandoah. Pa. Today. the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the United States has great vitality. with 300.000 faithful in 165 parishes. In this 20th century. when the world speaks of peace. justice. and freedom. the Ukrainian Catholic Church is being truthlessly persecuted on its native territoryin its homeland in the Ukraine.
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