St. Michael’s pastor to retire
PHOTO COURTESY / ARCHEPARCHY OF PHILADELPHIA - Myron Grabowsky
SHENANDOAH – The oldest Ukrainian Catholic church in the United States will have a new leader beginning Tuesday.
Monsignor Myron Grabowsky is retiring. He has been in Shenandoah for well over a decade as Pastor of St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church at Oak and Chestnut Streets.
The Archeparchy of Philadelphia announced Saturday that, effective April 1, Grabowsky is relieved of that role and as administrator of St. Nicholas Church in Saint Clair and he will enter retirement.
The Very Rev. Mark Fesniak is appointed administrator of both churches.
He remains Pastor of St. Nicholas Church in Minersville, administrator of Nativity BVM Church in Middleport, Transfiguration Church in Shamokin, and Patronage of the Mother of God Church in Marion Heights. He is also protopresbyter of the South Anthracite Protopresbyterate.
Rev. Bohdan Vasyliv will be Parochial Vicar for St. Michael’s in Shenandoah and St. Nicholas in Saint Clair. He was previously Parochial Vicar of St. Josaphat Church in Trenton, New Jersey.
St. Michael’s recently celebrated its 140th Anniversary.
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