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Metropolitan-Emeritus of UGCC in the USA urgently hospitalized with signs of COVID-19

06.04.2020, 10:49
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"A few hours ago, 95-year-old Bishop Stephen Sulyk was hospitalized. He shows all the signs of COVID-19 and all the tests reflect the gravest conditions. Doctors provide the so-called "comfort care". This was announced by Metropolitan of Boris Gudzyak of Philadelphia on his Facebook page.

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"A few hours ago, 95-year-old Bishop Stephen Sulyk was hospitalized. He shows all the signs of COVID-19 and all the tests reflect the gravest conditions. Doctors provide the so-called "comfort care". This was announced by Metropolitan of Boris Gudzyak of Philadelphia on his Facebook page.

"Everything is in the hands of God. I ask Your prayers for our Metropolitan-Emeritus Stephen Sulyk, the", - Metropolitan Borys said.

On November 29, 2000, Pope John Paul II accepted the abdication of Stephen Sulyk from the government of the Metropolitan of Philadelphia due to his reaching the age of 75.

In 2001, Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk's book "How Stefan Became Metropolitan" was published in Lviv. It highlights little-known pages from the history of the UGCC at the end of the twentieth century.

As it became known to RISU, the test for coronavirus was also positive in the Emeritus Bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the United States, Vasyl Losten. The bishop is feeling good. No complications of the disease have developed.