FYI - the clever folks of the UGCC in Canada actually laid out the organization of the entire Catholic Church (and the UGCC) in a series of slides, found here:

http://www.archeparchy.ca/documents/EcclOrgChart.pdf

The first two slides outline the structure of the Catholic Church - the remainder are UGCC specific.

I was reminded of this after seeing Fr. Deacon Lance's most recent post.

I cut this post from another thread because I thought it worth its own thread.

Joe,

Nice find, my friend!

I especially like that the Archeparchy:

- used the term Major Archeparch, rather than Major Archbishop, and
- included the orphaned Churches (those which are sine episcopi - without hierarchs), the Albanian, Belarusian, and Russian Churches, often ignored because of their status as sui alienos - subject to the law of another

I've really only 2 issues with it:

The usage of 'Yugoslav Church' is out-of-date. It would be more properly styled 'Croatian Church', especially as the recent separation from it of the Macedonian Exarchate suggests that the latter may, in time, become its own Church sui iuris

and, a point that I have before and must again raise on behalf of my Ruthenian brethren ...



not only is it not 'formally' part of the UGCC, it is not part of it informally either - much as I believe that the UGCC would like it to be so. The inclusion of a specific reference to its status offers confusion to those unfamiliar with the situation and would have been best left unaddressed.

Many years,

Neil

Addendum: I just now realized that it's a bit out of date, in that it still styles the Romanian Church as a Metropolitan Church, when it is now a Major Archeparchial Church.