20
February 2025
Past Event
The Patriarch of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church on a Just Peace with Russia

Event will also air live on this page.


Inquiries: eheller@hudson.org 

The Patriarch of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church on a Just Peace with Russia

Past Event
Hudson Institute
February 20, 2025
His Beatitude Sviatoslav
Caption
(Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)
20
February 2025
Past Event

Event will also air live on this page.


Inquiries: eheller@hudson.org 

Speakers:
Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk
His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk

Patriarch, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

Most Reverend Borys Gudziak
Most Reverend Borys Gudziak

Metropolitan-Archbishop of Philadelphia

Archpriest Dr. Mark M. Morozowich
Archpriest Dr. Mark M. Morozowich

Bishop Basil H. Losten Ukrainian Church Studies Chair, Catholic University of America

Moderator:
Nina Shea
Nina Shea

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Religious Freedom

Russia’s war against Ukraine has a significant religious dimension. The Kremlin relies heavily on the Moscow Patriarchate to provide ideological and moral justification for its aggression. Moscow Patriarch Kirill described Russia’s invasion as a type of holy war and declared Russia’s fallen soldiers to be veritable holy Christian martyrs.

As President Donald Trump begins peace talks to end this war, His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, will join Hudson to give remarks on:

  • The plight of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, a church in communion with Rome, under the Russian occupation, which outlawed it.
  • The status of Christian prisoners of war, including two Ukrainian Greek Catholic priests who survived Russian torture and imprisonment.
  • The status of deported children from the occupied areas of Ukraine.
  • The Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations and the religious situation in Ukraine.

The patriarch will then join a panel discussion on the prospects for a just peace with Reverend Borys Gudziak, who serves as the metropolitan-archbishop of Philadelphia of the Ukrainian Catholic Church and who recently returned from a visit to the front lines; and Mitred Archpriest Dr. Mark M. Morozowich, the Bishop Basil H. Losten Ukrainian Church Studies Chair at the Catholic University of America. Nina Shea will moderate the conversation.

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