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FOR THE WESTERN UNITED STATES

Your Spiritual Home

The Holy Protection of Mary Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Phoenix serves Byzantine Catholics living in the Western United States and is open to all Cathollics who are seeking a spiritual home. We live and proclaim the Gospel of Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ. Are you looking for a parish home? Maybe the opportunity to take part in some of our social, pastoral or educational ministries? Or maybe you wish to learn more about the teachings of the Catholic Church? Come join us as we worship the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Help us proclaim the Good News here in the West.

UPDATE FROM THE SEMINARY!

Update from the seminary!

Seminarian Joshua Johnson, ordained to the minor order of subdeacon on Sunday, April 14th at Ss. Cyril & Methodius Seminary Chapel by His Emminence, the Most Rev. William Skurla, OFM, Metropolitan Archbishop of Pittsburgh. Sbdcn. Joshua has completed his third year of theology. He will begin his final year of priestly formation in the Fall, to serve the Eparchy of Phoenix and the U.S. Airforce as chaplain. He currently holds the rank of Second Lieutenant. May God grant him many happy and blessed years! AXIOS!

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View fullsize On the Sunday after Our Lord's Holy Ascension, we celebrate the Holy Orthodox Father of the First Ecumenical Council, held in Nicea in 325. Pictured in this icon is the Emperor St. Constantine the Great, Equal to the Apostles, who convened the counc
View fullsize On Thursday, we celebrate the Ascension of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ into Heaven, forty days after the glorious Pascha of his Resurrection and ten days before the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. Please remember that Ascension is
View fullsize Today we commemorate our Holy Fathers Cyril & Methodius, Equals to the Apostles and Apostles to the Slavs, who brought the faith to the Slavic lands, translated the Holy Scriptures and the Divine Services into the Old Slavonic language, and devis
View fullsize Q: Why do Byzantine Catholic Churches celebrate the "Liturgy of the Hours" publicly? Why isn't the Divine Liturgy celebrated every day as in many Latin Churches? A: While in the West, the Divine Office or Liturgy of the Hours eventually bec
View fullsize The Most Rev. Michael Rusnak, C.S.s.R., was born in Pennsylvania in 1921 to Slovak parents. According to @greekcatholiclife , his family returned to Czechoslovakia during the Great Depression and he entered the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer
View fullsize Update on the upcoming Metropolitan Assembly: Registration for persons under 35 FREE due to underwriting by the Maria Theresa Foundation. Metropolitan Archbishop William C. Skurla and the Council of Hierarchs of the Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan
View fullsize St. George the Great Martyr & Dragon-Slayer as depicted in three iconographic traditions: Russian, Ethiopic, and Western. St. George is one of three early military martyrs who are commemorated with high ceremonies in the Greek Rite, the other tw
View fullsize BRIGHT WEEK! Canon 66 of the Council of Trullo, a local council of the Greek Church: "From the holy day of the Resurrection of Christ our God until the next Lord's day, for a whole week, in the holy churches the faithful ought to be free from l
View fullsize On the third day of Great and Holy Week, the day on which Judas Iscariot conspired with the Sanhedrin to betray Our Lord into their hands, the Church invites the faithful to receive the Holy Mystery of Unction, also called the Mystery of Anointing or

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