The "Byzantine" parish in the Toronto Ukrainian Eparchy that I mentioned in a previous post is St. Catherine of Alexandria in Bond Head, Ontario.
This parish is relatively new; I don't know if the word "Ukrainian" appears on
the St. Catherine of Alexandria Byzantine Catholic Church website [
stcatherinealexandria.ca]
On 18 October 1999 the second bishop of the Eparchy of Toronto, Bishop Cornelius assigned Fr. Conrad the task of organizing a Parish in Newmarket to be dedicated to the heavenly patronage of St. Catherine of Alexandria. This was in response to a need to find a place of worship for the Byzantine rite families that were in the area. Fr. Conrad visited families and obtained the use of a local Catholic school for divine service, and placed announcements in the media and in the bulletins of local Latin-rite Parishes. He served the first Divine Liturgy in Newmarket on Christmas Day, 25 December 1999. The new community was canonically erected as a Parish as of the stroke of midnight, 1 January 2000. St. Catherine's, Newmarket, became the first Catholic Parish to be established in Canada in the new millennium! Finally, in 2008 the parish found a permanent home in the current church building. Since then, St. Catherine of Alexandria parish has grown to serve many families beyond the original founders.
It is located north of Toronto, about two-thirds of the way to Barrie.
I have read that the Ukrainian Catholic church in Barrie was recently closed and that the parishioners were encouraged to attend St. Catherine of Alexandria.
This church isn't that far from the location of the former Slovak Cathedral. Perhaps there was an attempt to attract former parishioners thereof.
I have just learnt that Stephen Roman, the most famous Canadian "Slovak" and the main mover behind the erection of both the Slovak Eparchy and the Cathedral was born in the village Veľký
Ruskov (now Nový
Ruskov)
per [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Boleslav_Roman][/url]
