Originally posted by Diak:
... The problem is, the Russian Greek Catholic Church is technically dependent on the local Roman diocese as they no longer have an Exarch or any other episcopacy.
One scenario which could happen (probably will happen eventually) is the Roman bishop would agree to ordain, and send a dimissorial letter to a Byzantine bishop who would then ordain the candidate in his own ritual tradition for the Russian Catholic Church sui iuris. I believe one or more deacons have already been ordained this way.
Vladimir,
Father Alexei Smith (who serves both St. Andrew's Russian Catholic parish in El Segundo, CA and St. Paul's Melkite mission there, which share space) was a parishoner of the Russian parish but was ordained by the Eparch of Newton for the Melkite Catholics in the US to serve both communities. As discussed here recently, our Auxiliary Bishop has also ordained at least one deacon for the Russian Cstholic Church.
Many years,
Neil