Capuchin Brothers to found another monastery in Ukraine

Capuchin brothers are founding another monastery in Ukraine, this time in Uzhhorod. This will be the seventh Ukrainian city with active Capuchin monks, the Catholic magazine Credo informs. The Capuchins invited the local Eparch of the Greek Catholic Church Milan (Shashik) to engage in evangelization there.

The church and new monastery the Capuchin brothers will construct in the center of Uzhhorod. From the city government the Capuchins received a boiler house, which for many years hasn’t been used. They will transform the space into a church and monastery. Now this place is in disrepair; however, to get permission to refurbish the old building is easier than building a new one.

Now the Capuchins live in a Greek Catholic Seminary, where they will teach and serve 80 seminarians. Brother Justyn Rusin, a former long-time abbot in a monastery in Vinnytsia, will be the confessor of the seminary and Brother Roman Pop, who comes from the Zakarpattia Catholic Eparchy, will teach bioethics and moral theology. Also Brother Adam came from Poland to Uzhhorod.

In addition to Uzhhorod, the Capuchin brothers are in Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Dniprodzerzhynsk Starokostiantyniv and Krasyliv.