Programme Book in Honour of the 75th Birthday of Reverend Monsignor Dr. Wasyl Kushnir
19685456Winnipeg Manitoba: Sts. Vladimir & Olga Cathedral of the Ukrainian Catholic Church 1968. First Edition First Printing. Stapled Wraps. Unpaginated pp.3. 8vo. measuring 6" x 5.5". Illustrated twice-stapled self-wrappers. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece of the subject. Comprises a complete order of events held in honour of and commemorating the 75th birthday of the Ukrainian-Canadian religion leader complete with details of speakers hosts and a concise though thorough biography of the Monsignor. Light foxing to the front cover contents without blemish with firm stapled binding. Unrecorded in OCLC. Not found in Peel BAC/LAC University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections et al. Text in Ukrainian. <br/><br/>"Born in Vikno West Ukraine on 17 September 1893 he completed his high school education in Tarnopil and Lviv. After the First World War he studied theology at the Theological Seminary in Lviv and at the Catholic University in Innsbruck Austria from which he received a doctorate in divinity in 1929. From 1930 to 1934 he taught at the Theological Seminary at Stanislaviv Ukraine. He came to Canada in May 1934 and became a Ukrainian Catholic priest at Winnipeg. From 1947 to 1951 the Cathedral of Saints Vladimir and Olga was built under his leadership. In 1951 he was elevated to the position of Domestic Prelate by Pope Pius XII. In 1968 he was named Mitred priest by Patriarch Yosyf Slipyj Archbishop Major of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. An outspoken anti-communist in 1945 he led a delegation to the inaugural meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco California to challenge the right of the Ukrainian Soviet to represent Ukrainians. He was one of the founders of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee serving as its president from 1940 to 1953 and 1957 to 1972. He was founder and president of the Pan-American Ukrainian Conference and he initiated and chaired the first World Congress of Free Ukrainians serving as the president of its Executive Board from 1968 to 1969 and from 1973 to 1978. He received the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal 1953 the Canadian Centennial Medal 1967 and the Order of Canada 1972. In recognition of his service to the Ukrainian Canadian community he was awarded the Taras Shevchenko medal in 1961. He died at Winnipeg on 25 September 1979." Source: Sts. Valdimir & Olga Cathedral Ukrainian Catholic Church. Sts. Vladimir & Olga Cathedral of the Ukrainian Catholic Church paperback
