Organizers of the birthday celebration displayed a collage of pictures which included Archbishop Borys Gudziak as well as his friends and colleagues.
CHICAGO – Hundreds of long-time friends and colleagues from Ukraine, Western Europe and North America joined together on November 24 for a free and festive virtual gathering to honor Metropolitan-Archbishop Borys Gudziak on his 60th birthday. The birthday celebration was initiated and coordinated by staff of the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU), where then-Father Gudziak served as rector from 2002 until his reassignment as bishop to the Eparchy of St. Volodymyr in Paris in 2012.
The multi-media program was interspersed with often humorous slide shows and heart-warming reminiscences offered by friends who met the archbishop at various stages of his life, from his childhood in Syracuse, N.Y., to his teenage years in the Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization, and his later years as a doctoral student at Harvard University and to h