The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CCODP) was established and mandated by the Bishops of Canada in 1967.  It is today the Canadian member of Caritas Internationalis and also a member of International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity (CIDSE).  The purpose of the Bishops in founding Development and Peace was to aid the oppressed and impoverished people of the world, to support them in their struggles for justice, and to help educate Canadians about the problems of underdevelopment and obstacles to world peace.

VATICAN CITY, 10 FEB 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father today accepted the resignation from the office of major archbishop of Kyiv-Halyc, Ukraine, presented by Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, in accordance with canon 126 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Canons of the Eastern Churches. The administrator of the major archiepiscopal Church will be Archbishop Igor Vozniak C.SS.R. of Lviv of the Ukrainians, whose duty it will be to call a synod of bishops of the Greek-Catholic Ukrainian Church to elect the new major archbishop.

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