I found this notice on the Vatican web site:

Edward, deacon and sinner

May the new Metropolitan be blessed with health and long life. May the Spirit guide his hand and mind and heart to the service of your Church.

Congratulations!

Ad Multos Annos!

May God the Father endow the new Metropolitan and the new Bishop with the gifts of the Holy Spirit to serve the people of your Church. I know you've been waiting a long time for this, congrats guys.

Christ is risen!

May God grant Metropolitan Basil and Bishop-elect John many years.

Thanks be to God!

FINALLY! Now that we have a Metropolitan, we can get back to business. Let us pray for our new bishops, that God will guide them in their ministries.

Dear Anthony,

And may visions of married Byzantine Catholic priests dance in his head!!

Alex

And may visions of married Byzantine Catholic priests dance in his head!!

Alex

Amin. Thanks be to God!

Adam

ps, What kind of dance would they be doing?

>>>ps, What kind of dance would they be doing?

Probably some sort of Polka. Definitely not Lambada--at least not during Lent. ;-)

anastasios

Thanks be to God!

Here it is in Italian from www.vatican.va :


NOMINA DELL'ARCIVESCOVO METROPOLITA DI PITTSBURGH DEI BIZANTINI (U.S.A.)

Il Santo Padre ha nominato Arcivescovo Metropolita di Pittsburgh dei Bizantini (U.S.A.) S.E. Mons. Basil Myron Schott, O.F.M., finora Vescovo di Parma dei Ruteni (U.S.A.).

S.E. Mons. Basil Myron Schott, O.F.M.
S.E. Mons. Basil Myron Schott, O.F.M., è nato il 21 luglio 1939 a Freeland, Pennsylvania. Ha frequentato il Seminario di Santa Maria di Norwalk, Connecticut; ha studiato all'Università di New York al "Post Graduate Center for Mental Health" e in seguito all'Università Cattolica di Washington. Ha un Bachelor of Arts in filosofia e teologia ed un Master of Arts in teologia e consultazione pastorale.
Il 3 agosto 1958 è entrato nel noviziato dei francescani bizantini dell'Ordine dei Frati Minori, dove ha emesso i voti il 4 agosto 1959. In quell'Ordine è stato ordinato presbitero il 29 agosto 1959.
Ha avuto incarichi in seno all'Ordine.
Il 3 febbraio 1996 è stato nominato dal Santo Padre Vescovo di Parma dei Ruteni. E' stato consacrato ed intronizzato l'11 luglio 1996.

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NOMINA DEL VESCOVO DI PARMA DEI RUTENI (U.S.A.)

Il Santo Padre ha nominato Vescovo di Parma dei Ruteni (U.S.A.) il Rev.mo Arciprete John Kudrick, finora Amministratore Arcieparchiale di Pittsburgh e Rettore della Cattedrale.

Rev.mo John Kudrick
Il Rev.mo John Kudrick è nato il 23 dicembre 1947 a Lloydell, Pennsylvania, in una famiglia rutena.
Entrato il 29 gennaio 1967 nel Terzo Ordine Regolare di San Francesco, ha studiato, come membro della Provincia del Sacratissimo Cuore di Gesù di quella Comunità religiosa, al "Saint Francis College" in Loretto, Pennsylvania, ottenendo il titolo di Bachelor of Arts in matematica nel 1970. Ha emesso i voti perpetui il 1° giugno 1972.
Continuando gli studi alla "Indiana State University", ha conseguito nel 1973 il titolo di "Master of Science" in matematica e nel 1975 dal "Saint Francis Seminary" di Loretto nel 1975 il titolo di "Master of Divinity.
Il 3 maggio 1975 ha ricevuto l'ordinazione sacerdotale. Dal 1975 al 1985 è stato membro della Facoltà del Saint Francis College a Loretto e dal 1976 al 1980 Direttore Assistente per i postulanti del medesimo Ordine, esercitando anche il ministero in due parrocchie di rito bizantino ruteno dell'Arcieparchia metropolitana di Pittsburgh. Nel mese di maggio 1987 si è incardinato nell'Arcieparchia di Pittsburgh, dove ha esercitato il ministero nelle parrocchie di Santa Maria a Windber, Pennsylvania, e di Santo Spirito in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. Dal giugno 1998 è stato Rettore della Cattedrale di San Giovanni in Munhall, Pennsylvania.
Il 1° maggio 2001, dopo la scomparsa dell'Arcivescovo Metropolita, è stato canonicamente eletto dal Collegio dei Consultori Amministratore Arcieparchiale.

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http://www.vatican.va/cgi-bin/w3-msql/news_services/bulletin/news/11262.html?index=11262&lang=en

Here is the link from EWTN with the Vatican Information Service news report.


http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=26145


Joe Prokopchak
archsinner

Greetings all!

As some of you already know, I am currently Roman Catholic, working on a transfer to the Byzantine rite. Seeing this news story, I'm thinking it would be a grat time for someone to explain to me what a metropolitan is. For those who are familiar with western labels, would a metropolitan be the equivalent (at least roughly) of a cardinal?

Thanks for your help!

Greg

Dear Greg,

Actually, the Metropolitan in the Slavic Churches is what the Archbishop is everywhere else.

Alex

Originally posted by Orthodox Catholic:

Actually, the Metropolitan in the Slavic Churches is what the Archbishop is everywhere else.

Ok, so...In the west, essentially, you have (in order of authority) deacons, priests, monsigniors ("exalted" priests), bishops, archbishops, cardinals, and the Pope.

In the east, you have deacons, priests, archpriests...metropolitans, patriarchs and the Pope? Yes? No? Somebody help me out here. :-)

Greg

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Here is the Catholic News Service story:

SCHOTT (UPDATED) May-3-2002 (560 words) With photo. xxxn


Bishop Schott transferred to Pittsburgh; successor named in Parma


Editors: Adds new information. UPDATED version of SCHOTT of May 3, 2002:


By Catholic News Service


WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Pope John Paul II has appointed Bishop Basil M. Schott of the Byzantine Diocese of Parma, Ohio, to head the Byzantine Archdiocese of Pittsburgh, succeeding Archbishop Judson M. Procyk, who died last April.

The pope also named Father John M. Kudrick, who has been serving as diocesan administrator of the Byzantine archdiocese, as Archbishop Schott's successor in Parma.

The appointments were announced May 3 in Washington by Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, apostolic nuncio to the United States.

Pittsburgh Bishop Donald W. Wuerl called it "a great joy, personally and on behalf of the (Latin-rite) Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh to congratulate our sisters and brothers in the Byzantine Catholic Archdiocese of Pittsburgh."

He said he looked forward to working with Archbishop Schott "on the many cooperative efforts that reflect our desire to serve all of God's people in the church and the wider community."

He also pledged to continue to support Bishop-designate Kudrick, saying he brings "significant pastoral experience to his new duties" as Parma's bishop.

Archbishop Schott, who was ordained a Byzantine Franciscan priest in 1965, was appointed bishop of the Parma Diocese in 1996.

He was born in Freeland, Pa., in 1939 and attended St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Grade School in Freeland and St. Gabriel High School in Hazelton.

The bishop did his seminary studies in Callicoon and Troy, N.Y., and Sybertsville and New Canaan, Conn., between 1957 and 1965.

After his ordination, he was procurator of Holy Protection House in New Canaan, principal of Byzantine Catholic High School in Parma, and master of novices and superior of the convent at the Sybertsville monastery.

For nine years between 1978 and 1987, he was custodian of the Byzantine-Slavic Custody of St. Mary of the Angels in Sybertsville, and from 1987 to 1990 was spiritual director of its lay fraternity and director of post-novitiate formation.

Archbishop Procyk, who was archbishop of the Byzantine Archdiocese of Pittsburgh since 1995, died unexpectedly last year at the age of 70.

He was well-known for his efforts to preserve Eastern church traditions for Catholics under his care in the United States. He was a supporter of Vatican instructions to recapture the theology, liturgy and spirituality of Eastern Catholicism and he restored the practice of conferring the three sacraments of initiation -- baptism, confirmation and Eucharist -- at the same time.

Bishop-designate Kudrick, who succeeds Archbishop Schott in Parma, is a 55-year-old native of Dunlo, Pa., who was ordained a priest of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis in 1975. Three years later he was given permission to serve in the Byzantine rite. In the early years of his priesthood, he served as assistant professor and director of computer services at St. Francis College in Loretto, Pa.

Before he was appointed diocesan administrator of the Pittsburgh Byzantine Archdiocese last year, he had various assignments in the archdiocese including rector of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, vice chancellor of the archdiocese and administrative secretary to the metropolitan.

Pittsburgh's Byzantine Archdiocese has a Catholic population of 65,000. It serves Byzantine-Ruthenian Catholics in parts of Pennsylvania, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.

The Byzantine Diocese of Parma serves about 12,500 Byzantine-Ruthenian Catholics in parts of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Wisconsin and Ohio.

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05/03/2002 2:52 PM ET

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