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May
2004 On May 27 the Kyiv City
Council passed a decision to allocate a land plot for construction
of a chuch bulding and an administrative center of the Ukrainian
Lutheran Church.
"Apology of the
Augsburg Confession" is available in Ukrainian now. This
is one of the symbolical (confessional) books of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church. The book that consists in total of 322 pages
was published by the Ukrainian Lutheran Church in cooperation
with the Lutheran Heritage Foundation (U.S.A.).
On May 21, 2004 Bishop of the Ukrainian Lutheran Church V'yacheslav Horpynchuk received the degree of Doctor of Theology. The ceremony took place at the Concordia Seminary in Fort Waine, Indiana. The faithful of our church extend sincere congratulations to Bishop V'yacheslav and wish him many years of life.
On May 20 members of the Ukrainian Lutheran Church celebrated the Ascension of our Savior Jesus Christ. Festive worship services were conducted in the ULC congregations.
April 30 - May 2, 2004. Ukrainian Lutheran Church delegation took part in the meeting of the Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference of the European Region that took place in Zwickau, Saxony, Germany. Bishop V'yacheslav Horpynchuk, Vice-Bishop Andriy Honcharuk, Head of the Galician Eparchy Taras Kokovskiy, Adjunct-Professor of the Ukrainian Lutheran Theological Seminary of Saint Sophia Oleh Yukhymenko, ULC Secretary Ihor Rudzik, ULC Advisor Petro Rudzik and Dr. John Lawrenz participated in the meeting. Adjunct Professor Yukhymenko presented his paper "Loescher on Adiaphora." The paper was well received. This year meeting was attended by Churches from Germany, Ukraine, Sweden, Latvia, Norway, Bulgaria, Finland and Czech Republic. The meeting was finished by the Liturgy that was led by the Reverends: Gerhard Wilde, Jonas Schroeter and Gundars Bakulis. |
