(en) Editor I
This photograph (see at read more) of the 1922 first communion group at St. Mary's Greek Catholic Church at 4949 S. Seeley Ave., offers a snapshot that includes ancestors of parishioners at two existing parishes, one Byzantine Catholic and one Orthodox.

By 1931, a substantial portion of the parish would leave to create St. Peter & St. Paul's Orthodox Church at 53rd and Western, which relocated in 1998 to Burr Ridge.

Dear friends!

We would like to wish you Merry Orthodox Christmas and Happy New Year!
We hope that the coming 2011 will be for us all happy and joyful!
Wish you happiness and good luck!

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(en) Editor I

In November 22, Archpriest Dimytry Sydor was invited to the celebration of the 75-year anniversary of Blessed Vladimir in Kiev. Archpriest Dimytry received a guerdon from the Blessed Vladimir, a Silver Jubilee Cross. As part of the celebration, in the altar of Refectory Church of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra took place a meeting and conversation of Archpriest Dimytry and the patriarch Kirill.
It is no exaggeration to say that this event is of great importance for all of us ... I dare to suggest that in the face of Archpriest Dimytry Sydor, the spiritual leader of Subcarpathian Ruthenians, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kiril also blessed all Ruthenian people...

(en)  Archpriest Dimitry Sidor

Your Holiness!
Bless to address you on the day of All Saints that brightened the Russian land, and bring to your Holiness our filial greetings on the feast, uniting all Russians in the Russian land, from the Carpathian Ruthenia in the heart of Europe to the Russian Alaska! Ancient Orthodox Ruthenian nation, being part of the Great Moravia and the Bulgarian Kingdom, was among the first to adopt the pure Eastern Orthodox faith, and the Slavic-Russian writing from the hands of Cyril and Methodius and their disciples. Thereafter Subcarpathian Ruthenians participated in the future baptism of the Russian land.