Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford
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The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford is a diocese of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church covering parishes in New York State and New England.
Bishop Paul Patrick Chomnycky, O.S.B.M., heads the Stamford diocese. Pope Benedict XVI announced on January 3, 2006 that he had accepted the resignation of Bishop Basil H. Losten, who had reached the mandatory age of retirement, and that Bishop Chomnycky, then the Apostolic Exarch of Great Britain, was appointed as Bishop Losten’s successor as the fourth Bishop of the Eparchy of Stamford.
The Eparchy of Stamford is a suffragan diocese of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, which has authority over all Ukrainian Catholic dioceses and Ukrainian Catholics in the United States.
The Eparchy of Stamford was created in 1956 by Pope Pius XII. The territory was formerly administered by the Eparchate of Philadelphia. Bishop Ambrose Senyshyn of Stamford was named exarchate of the new eparchy. Senyshyn was president of the Ukrainian diocesan schools in Stamford, including the now-defunct St. Basil's Preparatory School.[1]
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- ^ "From the Archives: The Week of August 6" feature in The Advocate of Stamford, August 7, 2006, page A7
