Annual Report. PATRIARCHAL CURIA UGCC 2019

75 Pastoral care abroad In order to respond to this mass migration phenomenon, the UGCC Pastoral Migration Department was founded in 2008 with the aim of organizing pastoral ministry for UGCC faithful in the places where there were no hierarchical structures of our Church. Currently, the Pastoral Migration Department provides pastoral care for our faithful in the following areas: In Europe: Portugal (14 priests and 27 communities with approximately 66, 000 Ukrainians) Lithuania (3 OSBM monks and 2 communities with approximately 10, 000 Ukrainians) Estonia (1 priest and 2 communities with approximately 26, 000 Ukrainians) Latvia (1 priest and 2 communities with approximately 34, 000 Ukrainians) Greece (1 priest and 2 communities with approximately 20, 000 Ukrainians) Cyprus (2 communities, currently there are no UGCC priests with approximately 5, 000 Ukrainians) Hungar y (1 priest and 1 community with approximately 50, 000 Ukrainians) Moldova (2 priests and 2 communities with approximately 15, 000 Ukrainians) Slovakia (1 priest and 1 community with approximately 38, 000 Ukrainians) In the Middle East: Israel (2 priests and 4 communities) United Arab Emirates (1 priest and 2 communities) Turkey (1 community with no UGCC priests) Lebanon (1 community with no UGCC priests). Countries where the Pastoral Migration Department is the ambassador between existing hierarchical structures and the UGCC hierarchy: Spain, Austria, Czech Re- public, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kazakhstan and Russia. Potential places for opening UGCC parishes: Republic of South Africa (potential 3 communities, temporarily without a priest), Thailand (one community, temporar- ily without a priest – one potential candidate for priesthood), Singapore (potential one community).