The Uniate cardinal who blessed the Maidan and declared that the war is “a great benefit for Ukraine” has died
Today, the former head of the Uniate Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (2005-2011), Cardinal Lubomir Huzar, died.
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The chairman of the parliamentary committee on foreign affairs, Anna Gopko, herself a Uniate by religion, announced this on her Facebook page.
"Everlasting memory! I can't believe it... Thank you Lord for such a Majestic example of Serving God and people!” – she wrote.
The fact of Guzar’s death was confirmed in the Uniate Church itself.
“Today at 18:30, at the age of 85, after a serious illness, His Beatitude Lyubomir (Huzar), retired Archbishop of the UGCC, passed away to eternity.” This is stated in the official statement of the press service of the Uniate UGCC.
The press service of the UGCC also noted that the funeral service will be announced later.
Supreme Archbishop and Cardinal Lubomir Huzar (February 26, 1933, Lvov, Poland) – bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, cardinal of the Catholic Church; from January 28, 2001 Supreme Archbishop of Lviv, from August 25, 2005 to February 10, 2011 Supreme Archbishop of Kiev-Galicia - Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Honorary citizen of Ternopil. He spent a significant part of his life in exile abroad. Known as the ideologist of the promotion of Uniatism in the east of Ukraine. In particular, under him, the UGCC moved its residence from the Lviv Cathedral of St. George to Kyiv, where a Uniate Cathedral was specially built on the Left Bank. Huzar ideologically supported both Yushchenko’s and the second Maidan, and blessed the militants. And after the victory of the coup and the beginning of the civil war in Donbass, he gave a scandalous interview to the Kyiv publication Novoye Vremya,” in which, in particular, he argued that the war and the suffering, destruction and death associated with it are a “great benefit” for Ukraine, because forces Ukrainians to “stop being Soviet people.”
“Today we are forced to change. People are starting to act: look at how many charitable events they send food and clothing to the fighters,” said Huzar in that scandalous interview, listing all the positive things that, in his opinion, God sent to Ukraine along with the war.
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