Father Basil Kovpak, an excommunicated priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, is the founder and current head of the Traditionalist Catholic Society of Saint Josaphat, which rejects some of the decisions of the Second Vatican Council, as well as the Catholic Church's position on ecumenism and interreligious dialogue. It also opposes use of the Ukrainian language in the liturgy as opposed to Church Slavonic and insists on preserving some Latin Rite practices that have been adopted within this Eastern Rite Church. These practices include Eucharistic adoration, the Rosary, the Stations of the Cross, and several other Latin-Rite practices. The Society is closely affilliated with the Society of Saint Pius X and draws much of its funding from SSPX chapels in the West. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Roman Catholic priests in traditional clerical clothing. ... The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), also known as the Ukrainian Catholic Church, is one of the successor Churches to the acceptance of Christianity by Grand Prince Vladimir the Great (Ukrainian Volodymyr) of Kiev (Kyiv), in 988. ... A Tridentine Mass being celebrated in Bohermeen, Ireland in the 1950s. ... The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, or Vatican II, (Vatican two) was an Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church opened under Pope John XXIII in 1962 and closed under Pope Paul VI in 1965. ... Catholic Church redirects here. ... The word ecumenism (also oecumenism, Å“cumenism) (IPA: ) is derived from the Greek oikoumene, which means the inhabited world. In its broadest meaning ecumenism is the religious initiative towards world-wide unity. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Ukrainian (украї́нська мо́ва, ukrayinska mova, ) is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. ... From the Greek word λειτουργία, which can be transliterated as leitourgia, meaning a public work, a liturgy comprises a prescribed religious ceremony, according to the traditions of a particular religion; it may refer to, or include, an elaborate formal ritual (such as the Catholic Mass), or a daily activity such as... Church Slavonic may refer to: Old Church Slavonic language Church Slavonic language This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Latin Rite, in the singular and accompanied, in English, by the definite article (The Latin Rite), is a term by which documents of the Catholic Church designate the particular Church, distinct from the Eastern Rite Churches, that developed in western Europe and northern Africa, where Latin was the language of... The term Eastern Rites may refer to the liturgical rites used by many ancient Christian Churches of Eastern Europe and the Middle East that, while being part of the Roman Catholic Church, are distinct from the Latin Rite or Western Church. ... Eucharistic adoration is a practice in the Roman Catholic and some Anglican Churches, in which the Blessed Sacrament is exposed to and adored by the faithful. ... Our Lady of Lourdes - Mary appearing at Lourdes with Rosary Beads The Rosary (from Latin rosarium, crown of roses), is an important and traditional sacramental devotion of the Roman Catholic Church consisting of a set of prayer beads and a system of set prayers. ... The Stations of the Cross (or Way of the Cross; in Latin, Via Crucis or Via Dolorosa) refers to the depiction of the final hours (or Passion) of Jesus, and the Catholic devotion commemorating the Passion. ... The Society of St. ... The Society of St. ... A chapel is a church other than a parish church, often attached to a larger institution such as a college, a hospital, a palace, or a prison. ...

In 2004, Cardinal Lubomir Husar of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church declared Father Kovpak excommunicated, citing his close links to the SSPX. Father Kovpak has written a book entitled Persecuted Tradition in order to justify his actions and to respond to the accusations leveled against him by the leaders of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The book is available only in Ukrainian. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Excommunication is religious censure which is used to deprive or suspend membership in a religious community. ... The Society of St. ...

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• "Lefebvrite Priest Excommunicated from Greek Catholic Church"
• Click Here and Page Down to "Tradition Persecuted in Western Ukraine" for a Review of Father Kovpak's Book.