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To: livius
It looks like they’re just trading places. Strange.

No, not really. The Passaic Eparchy is older and much larger than the Eparchy (i.e. Diocese) of Van Nuys, which is administratively handled out of the Pro-Cathedral, St. Stephen's, in Phoenix. The US is quartered into 4 Eparchies which constitute the Ruthenian-Byzantine Catholic Church in America.

Bishop Skurla is young, having been consecrated a bishop about 5 years ago when he came to the Van Nuys Eparchy, and this is a sign of him "moving up" in the ecclesiastical world, not unlike other bishops in the Latin Rite being moved from a Diocese to a new Archdiocese. Happens all the time.

Father Gerald Dino, his replacement, is not yet ordained a bishop but will be to lead the Eparchy of Van Nuys.

8 posted on 12/08/2007 1:28:26 AM PST by TotusTuus
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To: TotusTuus

That’s interesting!


9 posted on 12/08/2007 2:43:57 AM PST by livius
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