{"id":967,"date":"2015-06-20T18:39:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T13:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transfigurationucc.org\/?page_id=967"},"modified":"2019-08-09T15:14:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T10:14:48","slug":"who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/transfigurationucc.org\/?page_id=967","title":{"rendered":"Who We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">Transfiguration of Our Lord is part of<br \/>\nThe Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy<br \/>\nof Philadelphia<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukrarcheparchy.us\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CLICK HERE for the Archeparchy website<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>WHO WE ARE<br \/>\nWe are Catholics in communion with the Bishop of Rome, His Holiness Pope Francis I, whom we recognize as the visible Head of the Catholic Church. We are a &#8220;Sui Juris&#8221; church (meaning: of one`s own laws). We are not &#8220;under&#8221; the Roman Catholic Church, but rather &#8220;in communion&#8221; with the Roman Catholic Church. We are two Sui Juris Churches, going forward side by side in our faith journey, as we both recognize in communion the authority and leadership of the Successor of Saint Peter the Apostle. The local Roman Catholic Bishop, the Bishops of the United States, and the whole world recognize us as being Catholic. As part of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, we are identified as Eastern Catholics and share the same faith and we have the same seven Sacraments. The difference is that as Eastern Catholics, we have a different way(or Rite), of expressing our Faith in regards to Liturgy, customs, theology and spirituality.<\/center><center>Our Patriarch and Spiritual Shepherd is His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk,<br \/>\nMajor Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych, Ukraine.<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.ugcc.ua\/en\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CLICK HERE for the Official Website<br \/>\nof the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Worldwide<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/a><\/strong><\/center><center>Our Metropolitan-Archbishop is His Grace,<br \/>\nThe Most Reverend Borys Gudziak of Philadelphia.<\/center><center>We follow the Ukrainian-Byzantine Liturgical<br \/>\ncomputation, holy days, and calendar of saints,<br \/>\naccording to the Gregorian calendar.<br \/>\n(Christmas is celebrated on December 25)<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transfiguration of Our Lord is part of The Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia CLICK HERE for the Archeparchy website WHO WE ARE We are Catholics in communion with the Bishop of Rome, His Holiness Pope Francis I, whom we recognize &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/transfigurationucc.org\/?page_id=967\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-967","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transfigurationucc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transfigurationucc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transfigurationucc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transfigurationucc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transfigurationucc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/transfigurationucc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"https:\/\/transfigurationucc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/967\/revisions\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transfigurationucc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}