Slovak Catholic Eparchy of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto


Slovak Catholic Eparchy of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto is an eparchy for Byzantine-rite Eastern Catholics of Slovak origin in Canada. It is part of the Slovak Greek Catholic Church sui iuris; however, it is not suffragan to the metropolitan Archeparchy of Prešov, but it is subject immediately to the Congregation for the Eastern Churches. Its territory is extended on the whole territory of Canada. Its bishop is member of the Council of Hierarchs of the Slovak Greek Catholic Church sui iuris.
The eparchy was erected on 13 October 1980 by Pope John Paul II, who though pope of the Roman Catholic Church, appoints the heads of some of the Eastern Catholic Churches when they lack the full structure of an Eastern church such as having a patriarch, catholicos or archbishop major. Its patron saints are Saints Cyril and Methodius. The first bishop was Michael Rusnak, C.SS.R.. The eparchy was recently a vacant see more than two years, because on 7 May 2016, Pope Francis transferred Bishop John Stephen Pazak, who had been in office since December 2000, as bishop of the Eparchy of Holy Mary of Protection of Phoenix of the Ruthenians, in Phoenix, Arizona, to serve as apostolic administrator of the Eparchy of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto until the appointment of a new bishop. On 5 July 2018, Fr. Marián Andrej Pacák, C.SS.R. was named the bishop of the eparchy.
the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Mother of God in Toronto was serving as a cathedral church.

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