Tag: Cardinal Mykola Bychok

During his 13-15 September visit to Philadelphia, Cardinal Mykola Bychok of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Sts Peter and Paul in Melbourne, Australia—at age 45, the Catholic Church's youngest cardinal—sat down with OSV News to share his thoughts on hope, war, division, his time in Russia, and the church in Australia.

The presence of Cardinal  Mykola Bychok has not gone unnoticed among the cardinals given he is not even 50 years old.

Civic and religious leaders from across Australia have gathered with the faithful for a Divine Liturgy to commemorate the elevation to cardinal of His Eminence Bishop Mykola Bychok CSsR.

Australia’s new cardinal, His Eminence, Cardinal Mykola Bychok, presided over Vespers at the Domus Australia chapel on the evening following his elevation to the College of Cardinals. He told a full chapel that the rosary is a “spiritual sword” and that “the intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God that empowers all of us to fight 'the good fight.'”

Bishop Mykola Bychok CSrR, Eparch of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in Australia and Oceania, was made the Catholic Church’s youngest cardinal by Pope Francis in a solemn yet joyous ceremony in Rome on 7 December.

Becoming a cardinal is an insistent call to put Jesus at the centre of one's life, to love the poor as he did and to strengthen the bonds of unity within the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said as he created 21 new cardinals from 17 nations.