Fr. Borys Gudziak tells the honorable guests about plans for the construction of the Stryiskyy Park Campus of UCU

On 17 June Ukrainian Catholic University was visited by John F. Tefft, the United States Ambassador to Ukraine, with his wife Mrs. Mariella Cellitti Tefft and some representatives of his team.

Honorable guests were welcomed by the university authorities headed by Rector Fr. Borys Gudziak. In the course of the visit the representatives of the US Embassy had an opportunity to hear the history of the foundation and growth of the University alongside the renewal of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in independent Ukraine, to get acquainted with the plans for UCU’s development, in particular the construction of the Stryiskyy Park Campus
which does not have any parallels in Ukraine. They viewed an exposition of the Underground
Church Museum, one of the results of the activity of the Church History Institute at UCU.
The work of the Center for Spiritual Support of Mentally Handicapped People, “Emaus”,
which exist at UCU was presented by the Director of this organization, Ms. Zenya Kushpeta.

A tour around the building of the Theology and Philosophy Faculty of UCU

The program of the visit included also a tour around the building of the Theology and Philosophy Faculty of UCU: its design, along with that of the Lviv Spiritual Seminary of the Holy Spirit were awarded the State Prize of Ukraine in the sphere of architecture in 2008. The guests viewed an exhibition with the works of students of the Icon-Painting School at UCU, communicated with the Director of the Lviv Business School of UCU, Sofiya Opatska, and visited the Chapel of the Theology and Philosophy Faculty where decoration works are still in progress.

The activity of Lviv Business School of UCU is presented by its Director Sofiya Opatska

«My wife and I are very happy to be here today, – the Ambassador shared his impressions. – This is our first visit to Lviv but also our first visit to the Catholic University here. We’ve heard many good things about it and I have to say all of our expectations were realized today, we were impressed by what we saw, by the value of the facilities, by the students and faculty. And all the work that is being done here… My wife and I are both graduates of Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) which is a Catholic Liberal Arts School and we’ve always thought that the education we received there which is similar to the kind of education that is given to
students here prepares you not just for a job but prepares you for life and most of all for a Christian life. And we are confident that the education that the young people get here at this
university will also prepare them well for life in modern Ukraine.»