The Dr. Teodor Dziubanowsky ndowed Chair stablished at the UCU in Lviv

The Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation in Canada announced the establishment of the Dr. Teodor Dziubanowsky Endowed Chair at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv on December 3. The official announcement was made after memorial services held in memory of Dr. Dziubanowsky at Sts. Vladimir and Olga Ukrainian Catholic Church in Windsor, where the late Dr. Dziubanowsky had been a long-time parishioner.

Dr. Dziubanowsky left a substantial gift, totalling more than $240,000, to the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation (UCEF) in Canada, a registered Canadian charity  based in Toronto. UCEF’s mission is to be a permanent source of funding in support of the education and work of religious and lay people of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada and Ukraine, as well as other former Communist block countries. For that reason, UCEF honoured the wishes of one of its dearly departed benefactors with the establishement of an Endowed Chair in his name to support the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv.

“Dr. Dziubanowsky understood the mission of our Foundation, as well as the importance of   education for the continued growth of the Ukrainian Catholic Church,” stated Prof. Jurij Darewych, current academic advisor to UCEF and its former Chair, in his introductory speech.

For this special announcement, the community welcomed Prof. Myroslav Marynovych, Vice-Rector of UCU, to Windsor. In his speech, Prof. Marynovych spoke of the important role that UCU is playing in the spiritual education of Ukrainian Catholic youth, of future priests, religious and faithful.

Fr. Eugene Halitsky, parish priest of Sts. Vladimir and Olga, welcomed the guests and parishioners who filled the church hall after the services and shared with them fond memories of Dr. Dziubanowsky. Similarly, Mrs. Lubow Manley, who had selflessly chauffered Dr. Dziubanowsky to church almost every Sunday in the last years of his life, fondly remembered a man from whom she had learned so much.

Dr. Dziubanowsky was a respected member of the Ukrainian community in Windsor and he and his wife Olha were long-time parishioners of Sts Vladimir and Olga Church. Born in the Ternopil region of Ukraine on September 9, 1904, Dr Dziubanowsky received his medical training in Poland and practised medicine briefly in Ukraine before serving as a physician in the Ukrainian National Army, 1st Division. After the war, Dr. Dziubanowsky immigrated to Canada where he received his Canadian medical certification. He was in private practice in Windsor from 1951 until his retirement in 1984. Dr. Dziubanowsky, who passed away on December 22, 2003, was predeceased by his beloved wife and their daughter, Marta.

Through his generous gift to UCEF, Dr. Dziubanowsky led by example. For more information on how you too can support Ukrainian Catholic education, please contact UCEF by mail at: 265 Bering Ave., Toronto, ON. M8Z 3A5; phone: (416) 239-2495; fax: (416) 239-2496; or email: ucef@ucef.ca. The UCEF website can be found at www.ucef.ca. Information on UCU (in English and Ukrainian) can be found at www.ucu.edu.ua.

See page 11 for an interview with UCU’s rector Father Borys Gudziak.