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Archbishop Shevchuk

Residents wait inside a church for the arrival of volunteers distributing humanitarian aid in the Luhansk region of Ukraine Feb. 4, 2026. The fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine is Feb. 24. (OSV News photo/Alexander Ermochenko)

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Shevchuk: Faith endures as Ukraine's source of hope as full-scale war marks 4th anniversary

OSV News|Feb 5, 2026|6 Min Read

Women hold patients outside Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, July 8, 2024, after it was severely damaged during Russian missile strikes amid Russia's war on Ukraine. At least 31 were killed and over 135 injured as Russian bombers pummeled Kyiv and numerous other cities throughout the nation that day with more than 40 missiles and guided aerial bombs, with one striking the large children's hospital, where emergency crews searched the rubble for victims. (OSV News photo/Gleb Garanich, Reuters)

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Shevchuk: Russian attack on Kyiv children's hospital 'a sin that cries out to heaven for revenge'

Gina Christian|Jul 9, 2024|4 Min Read

Members of the Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religions speak at a news conference at the Vatican Jan. 26, 2023. From the right: Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki of Lviv; Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych, head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church; Bishop Marcos Hovhannisyan of the Ukrainian Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church; Valerii Antoniuk, head of the All-Ukrainian Union of the Churches of Evangelical Christians-Baptists; and a translator. (CNS photo/Justin McLellan)

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Ukraine's religious leaders renew invitation to pope to visit Kyiv

Justin McLellan|Jan 26, 2023|3 Min Read

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Ukrainian archbishop appeals for release of Catholic priests captured by Russian troops

Courtney Mares|Dec 2, 2022|3 Min Read

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Nov. 9, 2022. (Rome's Secretariat of the Major Archbishop of the Greek Catholic Church via CNA)

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Benedict XVI tells Ukrainian archbishop: ‘I continue to pray for peace’

Andrea Gagliarducci|Nov 10, 2022|2 Min Read

Pope Francis greets Ukrainian Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych during a private meeting at the Vatican Nov. 7, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

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Ukrainian archbishop tells pope Russia wants to destroy, not negotiate

Cindy Wooden|Nov 7, 2022|2 Min Read

Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych, head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, is pictured during a meeting with Ukrainian refugees in Lviv, Ukraine, in this March 10, 2022, file photo. He spoke to Catholic News Service May 30 about Russias war on his country, Pope Francis condemnation of the war and about the role of Christian ministers in a situation of conflict and danger. (CNS photo/courtesy Ukrainian Catholic Church)

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100 days of war: Ukrainian leader reflects on the pope, hope, solidarity

Cindy Wooden|Jun 8, 2022|5 Min Read

Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych, major archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, is pictured in a March 25, 2022, photo. In a video address to members of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity May 6, the archbishop said Russia's reasons for attacking Ukraine are nothing more than an excuse to justify its ultimate goal of wiping out the country's people. (CNS photo/Ukrainian Catholic Church)

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Russia's war meant to eliminate Ukrainian people, archbishop says

Junno Arocho Esteves|May 6, 2022|3 Min Read

Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych, major archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, is pictured during a service in the Cathedral of the Mother of God in Zarvanytsia, April 25, 2022. (CNS photo/Ukrainian Catholic Church)

‘An untimely idea’: Ukrainian Catholic leader concerned by format of Pope’s Good Friday Via Crucis

Catholic News Agency|Apr 12, 2022|3 Min Read

Pope Francis attends a meeting with authorities and members of the diplomatic corps at The Palace in Valletta, Malta, April 2, 2022. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

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Papal envoy to Ukraine says country supports possible papal trip to Kyiv

Inés San Martín|Apr 4, 2022|4 Min Read

Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych, major archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, joins Pope Francis and bishops around the world in consecrating Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary March 25, 2022. The archbishops service was held in the Cathedral of the Mother of God in Zarvanytsia, Ukraine. (CNS photo/Ukrainian Catholic Church)

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Ukrainian archbishop tearfully recounts the horrors, heroism of war

Cindy Wooden|Mar 30, 2022|3 Min Read

A view shows a damaged administrative building of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Enerhodar, Ukraine, in this handout picture released March 4, 2022. (CNS photo/Press service of National Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom/handout via Reuters)

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Archbishop Shevchuk: War risks creating ecological disaster as well as humanitarian catastrophe

Catholic News Agency|Mar 4, 2022|4 Min Read

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