Annual Report. PATRIARCHAL CURIA UGCC 2019

9 1901-1944: The revival of the Church . This period of revival of Church life came under the administrations of one of the greatest figures in the history of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. During his tenure, Church efforts were extended to renew authentic Eastern Rite traditions in the liturgy, iconography and monas- ticism; to deepen the Church's social engagement; to expand pastoral care for Ukrainians in Ukraine and abroad; to engage in higher education; and to promote a Ukrainian national and cultural revival July 4, 2002: The Third Conven- tion of the Patriarchal Sobor . Delegates voteed unanimously to form a Patriarchate as the natural next step in the devel- opment and expansion of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church August 21, 2005: The return to the historical site of the UGCC See . The UGCC See and the Patriarchal Curia moved from Lviv to Kyiv 1989: The legalization of the UGCC . State authorities restored the legal status of millions of faithful, 397 surviving underground priests, and the one single Church in Lviv that was still operating March 30, 1991: The return of the UGCC Head , Cardinal Myroslav Ivan Lubachivskiy, from Rome to Lviv 1945-1989: The persecu- tion of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church . The UGCC became the largest perse- cuted underground Church in the World with more than 500 priests imprisoned