Metropolitan Borys Gudziak held meeting with the General Superior of the Sisters of Saint Basil

On March 20, 2022, at the invitation of Metropolitan Borys Gudziak, General Superior of the Sisters of Saint Basil Mother Marcela Runcan, provincial superior sister Joann Sosler and assistant provincial and secretary sister Dorothy Ann Busowski visited the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.

“We welcome the general superior of the Sister of the Order of Saint Basil the Great sister Marcela Runcan, she is Romanian. She has come to visit her sister here, in the USA and we are thankful very much, sister, for being here with you” – said Metropolitan Borys Gudziak during the liturgy.

Bishop Ortynsky found churches in sad need of repair and reorganization and a flock of illiterate and desperately poor parishioners, including scores of orphans. Knowing that the tasks before him were too great to tackle alone, he sought the assistance of Ukraine’s Metropolitan Andrew Sheptytsky who arranged for the transfer of a group of Basilian nuns from the Yavoriv monastery to America. In 1911, Sisters of the Order of Saint Basil the Great, led by Mother Helena Langevych, OSBM, came to Philadelphia. For financial support, the sisters established a carpet weaving business and a printing press. The Sisters tended to the needs of the orphans and the small business operations at the same time. St. Basil Academy, a convent boarding school for girls of Ukrainian heritage, opened its doors in 1931. In 1947, Manor College (initially named St. Macrina College) was founded.