St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church, Baltimore

St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church, Baltimore

Rev. Vasyl Sivinskiy

2401 Eastern Ave. Baltimore, MD 21224
410-675-7557 baltimore@ukrcatholic.org

Liturgical Schedule

4:00 PM (English)
Liturgies and other services

Half hour before Divine Liturgy
Confession time

10:30 AM (Ukrainian)
Liturgies and other services

Rev Vasyl Sivinskyi

Rev Vasyl Sivinskyi

St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church
410-675-7557 VSivinskyi@ukrcatholic.org

History of the parish

Western Ukrainians began immigrating to Baltimore (Fells Point) in the 1880's.
At first, services were held in homes. In the 1890's, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated by Ukrainian Catholic priests traveling from Pennsylvania.
St. Stanislaus Roman Catholic Church (700 S. Ann St.) offered their facilities for use to their Byzantine Rite brethren. Also, Fr. Josaphat Bok, then pastor of St. Casimir's Church helped the Ukrainian Catholic Community to worship in the Byzantine Rite.
In 1910, Fr. Zachary Orun was assigned by So​ter Ortynsky, Bishop of Ukrainian Catholics in America, to minister to the faithful in Baltimore. In 1912,
St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church purchased two lots on 520 and 522 South Wolf St. for the purpose of building a church.
In August, 1913 the first Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the newly constructed church.
The parish continued growing. In 1981, the parish purchased the present site on Eastern Avenue from the city of Baltimore which contained an abandoned city school and warehouse. The school and warehouse were torn down in 1983. On Sunday, April 29, 1984, the plot for the new church was blessed.
At the end of September, 1988 the parish center was completed. The last Divine Liturgy was held at the church on Wolfe St. on September 25.
The church building was complete in May, 1991 and the first Divine Liturgy was celebrated on May 19, 1991 by Archbishop Sterniuk of Lviv, Ukraine.
On November 22, 1992, Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk of the Ukrainian Catholic Church and Archbishop Keeler, the Latin Rite Archbishop of Baltimore consecrated the new St. Michael's. On June 25, 1995, the iconostas was blessed and the mortgage on the church was burned.
Since the blessing of the iconostas, the entire interior of the church has been decorated with icons, the domes of the church have been resufaced, and the exterior of the church has been repainted.
​The painting of the interior of the church has been completed and was blessed by Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk on November 2nd, 1997.​

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