Peter Galadza (born 5 May 1955) is a Canadian Greco-Catholic

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and

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. He is director emeritus and professor emeritus of

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at the

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in the Faculty of Theology, University of St. Michael's College,

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, and a member of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the

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. In 2003-2004 he was a fellow at Harvard University's Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Research Center. In 2007 he was awarded a major, three-year, grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to study Ukrainian liturgical manuscripts. From 2010 to 2012 he was president of the international Society of Oriental Liturgy, founded by Robert F. Taft, SJ. Galadza was among the Canadians sanctioned by

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in relation to the

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on April 21, 2022.

Biography

Galadza studied at

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, at the University of St. Michael's College in the

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(B.A. 1976), at

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(M.Div. 1981), and at

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in South Bend, Indiana (M.A. in Liturgy 1988). He earned his Ph.D. in theology from the University of Saint Michael’s College in the

in 1994. He was ordained to the priesthood by Patriarch

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on Lazarus Saturday, 18 April 1981 at the Monastery of St. Theodore Studite in

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. Between 1994 and 2005 he was editor of Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies. Since 2014 he has been managing editor of the journal as well as acting director of the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute. He is married to Olenka Hanushevsky Galadza. They have three children: Daniel, Marika and Ivanka. During the 1999-2000 academic year, Galadza served as dean of the L’viv Theological Academy in Ukraine (since 2002, The

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), for which he was awarded the jeweled

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by Cardinal

Lubomyr Husar Liubomyr Huzar MSU (; 26 February 1933 – 31 May 2017) was the Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the first elected in independent Ukraine. He was also a cardinal of the Catholic Church. After the transfer of the s ...

. For several years he was the director of the Institute of Liturgical Studies at the Ukrainian Catholic University. He became the Institute's first director in 1999. In 2011 he was elected a fellow at the Centre for Research on Religion (CREOR) at

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Galadza's thought in the area of liturgical reform is the subject of a chapter entitled "La riforma liturgica nel pensiero di P. Galadza" in a book by the liturgist Marcel Mojzeš, ''Il movimento liturgico nelle Chiese bizantine'', Bibliotheca «Ephemerides Liturgicae» Subsidia 132 (Rome, 2005).

Videos

Some of Galadza's lectures and presentations can be viewed on YouTube. Archived a
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Wayback Machine

Selected bibliography

*''The Theology and Liturgical Work of Andrei Sheptytsky'', Orientalia Christiana Analecta 272, Rome, 2004

*''The Divine Liturgy: An Anthology for Worship'', Ottawa, 2004

*''Unité en division: Les lettres de Lev Gillet (“Un moine de l’Eglise d’Orient”) à Andrei Cheptytsky – 1921-1929'', Parole et Silence, 2007

* *''Archbishop Andrei Sheptytsky and the Ukrainian Jewish Bond'', Ottawa and Toronto: Ukrainian Jewish Encunter, 2014

References

External links

''Curriculum Vitae of Peter Galadza''''Peter Galadza on academia.edu''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Galadza, Peter 20th-century Christian theologians 1955 births Living people Liturgists University of Toronto alumni