Can anyone recognize this church

[The Liturgist]

I of late have had two separate channels suggested to me by Youtube which depict parishes which appear to be some kind of Byzantine Rite Catholic, but I am not sure as I find Cyrillic hard to read.

They are using melodies that are Russian Orthodox, but they are wearing Byzanrine rather than Athonite phelonia, without the high collar one would see in a Russian or Ukrainian church. And there are people in these parishes holding furled flags or banners throughout the liturgy, which is not something I have seen.

And the hymns do not seem to be prostopinije, or if it is, its different from the prostopinije one hears in OCA/ACROD/Ruthenian Greek Catholic churches.

The reason why I suspect Eastern Catholic is because I can’t make out any Orthodox crosses, however I found a hierarchical divine liturgy and the bishop was wearing an omophorion and not the pallium that EC bishops tend to wear instead of the omophorion.

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[E.C.]

So, Google Translate is a wonderful thing, though I'll happily defer to actual Slavic language speakers.

The first link appears to be part of the UGCC or Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church which is one of the two-dozen or so Eastern Catholic Churches under the Roman Catholic Pope.


The second link just says it is the liturgy celebrated in a village/town called Perevoloka situated somewhere in the Ternopil Obalst of Western Ukraine. Wikipedia says that oblast is majority Ukrainian Catholic with a sizable Orthodox minority as well. Perhaps if one of our Slavic speakers (rusmeister!) were to skip to the point when they commemorate the parish's hierarchs in the liturgy we'd have a better idea.

 

[The Liturgist]

Google Translate is indeed useful, but when using a device with the YouTube app, which I was at the time, it can’t translate from the app, despite them both being Google products and despite the app and YouTube being Google products and supporting the translation of comments, but not video titles for some reason.

 

[rusmeister]

The letters UGCC (УГКЦ) are in the title. (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)

 

[notRusskiyMir]

Also Google Translate. The first is St. Nicholas UGCC, Busk, Ukraine
The second is St. Josaphat [UGCC], village of Perevoloka, Ukraine
... where UGCC is Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

They both have the ambo (front 'pulpit') in front of the iconostasis.