Welcome to Holy Cross! We are a Byzantine Catholic Church, in communion with the Roman Catholic Church, but celebrating the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom and other services of the Eastern Rite in common with Eastern Orthodox churches. We would love to see you at one of our services, 9:00 am Sunday mornings (spoken service in English); or 10:30 am (sung service in Ukrainian with English scripture readings and sermon). We also have worship services on special occasions.

Pastor: V. Rev. Fr. Bruce Power, Protopresbyter
(604) 585-9157; vrevpower@shaw.ca

Check out Fr. Bruce's blog, BC Byzantine.

Holy Cross Church is a member parish of the Eparchy of New Westminster, under the bishop of New Westminster, the newly appointed Most Rev. Kenneth Nowakowski. The Eparchy of New Westminster is part of the Archeparchy of Winnipeg, under Archbishop-Metropolitan Most Rev. Lawrence Hukulak, OSBM; as are all of the Ukrainian Catholic Churches in Canada.


Official Vatican Website;
Nash Holos, a bilingual Ukrainian/English radio program from British Columbia;
St. Mary's Church in Vancouver;
Byzantines.Net, information on Byzantine Catholicism, including texts of various liturgies;
UCWLC (Ukrainian Catholic Women's Leauge of Canada);
St. Herman's of Alaska Orthodox Church in Langley, BC, a good resource for Eastern Christianity;
St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, link to St. Vlad's bookstore for resources from an Eastern Christian perspective;
Conciliar Press, more Eastern Christian resources;
Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky, C.Ss.R., a Ukrainian Catholic martyr enshrined in Winnipeg, on his way to sainthood;
First Things, a journal on Religion, Culture, and Public Life founded by Roman Catholic Fr. Richard John Neuhaus;
Ignatius Press, Catholic publishing house;
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, official website of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church worldwide (under His Eminence, Lubomyr Cardinal Husar, Major Archbishop of Lviv);
Holy Spirit Seminary in Ottawa, seminary for the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada;
Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine;
Parish Pastoral Council Guidelines from the Archeparchy of Winnipeg;
Papal Encyclicals Online
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver
BC Catholic newspaper
BC Christian News




Please note: Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations on this site are from the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition of the Holy Bible (1971, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press Inc., New York).