Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 6879 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| LECTURE GIVEN BY BISHOP ROMANYUK AT THE BRADFORD CLUB | 1989 | 1989-12-10 |
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Details
Original Format: VHS Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 1 hr 35 mins Genre: Documentary Subject: Religion Education |
| Summary This film documents a lecture given by Bishop Romanyuk in the main hall at the Bradford Ukrainian Cultural Centre on Legrams Lane. It was made by the Ukrainian Video Archives Society (UVAS) and is in colour with sound. The language of the film is Ukrainian. |
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Description
This film documents a lecture given by Bishop Romanyuk in the main hall at the Bradford Ukrainian Cultural Centre on Legrams Lane. It was made by the Ukrainian Video Archives Society (UVAS) and is in colour with sound. The language of the film is Ukrainian.
The film opens with footage of the audience taking their seats in the hall. The lecture is introduced by Zenon Lastowiecki. Bishop Romanyuk discusses religion in Ukraine set against the context of current affairs and communism. The...
This film documents a lecture given by Bishop Romanyuk in the main hall at the Bradford Ukrainian Cultural Centre on Legrams Lane. It was made by the Ukrainian Video Archives Society (UVAS) and is in colour with sound. The language of the film is Ukrainian.
The film opens with footage of the audience taking their seats in the hall. The lecture is introduced by Zenon Lastowiecki. Bishop Romanyuk discusses religion in Ukraine set against the context of current affairs and communism. The first five mins are and introduction and short biography. He speaks for about 50 mins, finishes 57 mins. Topics include Glasnost, perestroika, Gorbachev, Ukrainian history from a colonial perspective, anti-communism, the need to cooperate, mention of Fond Materi i Dytyny (Ukrainian Children's Appeal Fund), Petro Ruban. Q+A at end in which some of these subjects are discussed. The film ends with singing of Ukrainian national anthem.
Context
Bishop Volodymyr Romanyuk (9 Oct 1925 - 14 July 1995) was a Ukrainian Orthodox priest who was elected Patriarch of Ukraine in 1993. He was born in Galicia to a peasant family and joined the Ukrainian insurgents as a teenager. He was arrested in 1944 aged 18, and along with most of his family, sent to a labour camp. He spent over 10 years in a labour camp in Poltava where he met his wife Maria Antonyuk, with whom he had a son, Taras. He was released in 1954 and decided to become a priest,...
Bishop Volodymyr Romanyuk (9 Oct 1925 - 14 July 1995) was a Ukrainian Orthodox priest who was elected Patriarch of Ukraine in 1993. He was born in Galicia to a peasant family and joined the Ukrainian insurgents as a teenager. He was arrested in 1944 aged 18, and along with most of his family, sent to a labour camp. He spent over 10 years in a labour camp in Poltava where he met his wife Maria Antonyuk, with whom he had a son, Taras. He was released in 1954 and decided to become a priest, but could only do this by joining the Russian Orthodox Church. He became a deacon in 1954 but was not ordained until 1964.
He became increasingly involved in the Ukrainian nationalist movement, supporting his friend the historian Valentyn Moroz, who was arrested in 1970. Romanyuk was himself arrested in 1972 and served time in labour camps in Vladimir, Mordovia and Siberia, where he undertook hunger strikes to try to obtain a bible. In 1976, he denounced his Soviet citizenship and his son Taras was expelled from the University of Lviv in retaliation. On his release from exile in Siberia, he returned to Ukraine. His wife died in 1985 and he and Taras managed to leave Ukraine for Canada in 1988. He returned to Ukraine in 1990 after the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church was revived, and became Bishop of Uzhorod and Khust. This was a time of great difficultly in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as it sought to re-establish itself. Romanyuk was promoted several times, becoming Archbishop of Bila Tserkva in 1991 and Archbishop of Lviv in 1993. In 1993, he was elected Patriarch of Ukraine and Kyiv, in which position he served until his death in 1995. |
