Selfreliance FCU sponsors Ukrainian Icon Symposium at Seton Hall
A symposium titled "The Ukrainian Icon: A Piece of Heaven on Earth" took place in Bethany Hall at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey on April 28, 2022. The symposium, organized by the Department of Catholic Studies, featured two distinguished scholars: Andriy Demyanchuk, Ph.D., Associate Professor of the Department of Stage Direction and Choreography, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine; iconographer extraordinaire and scholar of icons; and Borys Gudziak, Ph.D., Archbishop-Metropolitan of Philadelphia for Ukrainian Catholics in the United States, Head of the Department of External Church Relations, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and President, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv. Selfreliance FCU was a sponsor of the symposium.
It is noteworthy that Seton Hall University, a private Catholic university in New Jersey, chose to organize a symposium on Ukrainian icons.
Standing from left to right in the photos are: Michael Koziupa, SFCU New Jersey Advisory Board member; Irene Agne, SFCU Newark Branch Manager and SFCU New Jersey Advisory Board Secretary; Michael Szpyhulsky, SFCU Supervisory Committee and New Jersey Advisory Board Member; Rev. Thomas P. Shubeck, Ph.D, of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Passaic, serving at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, Rahway, NJ; Orest Ciapka, SFCU New Jersey Advisory Board Member; The Most Reverend Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Newark Manuel A. Cruz, D.D.; Most Reverend Borys Gudziak, Ph.D.; Bishop Kurt R. Burnette of Ruthenian Eparchy of Passaic, NJ; Olena Bilyk; Rev. Stepan Bilyk, Pastor of St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in Whippany, NJ; and Marc Anthony Datz, M.A., a friend of Seton Hall and visionary of Ukrainian symposia.
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28 квітня 2022 р. в університеті Seton Hall у South Orange, NJ відбувся семінар про українські ікони - їх історію та іконопис. Кредитівка "Самопоміч" була спонсором події. Доповідачами були проф Андрій Дем'янчук з університети Івана Франка у Львові, та Митрополит Борис Ґудзяк.
