“Purists, Assimilators, and Adaptors: The Genius of the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo”
The B.C.S. Annual Lecture will take place May 12, 2026 @ 7 P.M.
We are eager for you to join us!
Dr. Magocsi’s presentation will focus on how the Byzantine Ruthenian/Greek Catholic Church has been able to survive for nearly four centuries in the face of political, social, and cultural challenges placed before it by the different societies in which it has had to function in Europe and North America.
All are welcome to attend this lecture virtually via the Seminary website.
Dr. Paul Robert Magocsi is professor of history and political science at the University of Toronto, where since 1980 he also holds the John Yaremko Chair of Ukrainian Studies. He completed his education at Rutgers University (B.A. 1966; M.A. 1967), Princeton University (M.A. 1969; Ph.D. 1972), and Harvard University (Society of Fellows 1976). He is a member of the Harvard University Society of Fellows (1976). Professor Magocsi has taught at Harvard University, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Prešov University in Slovakia, and on five occasions was historian-in-residence at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. In 1996 he was appointed a permanent fellow of the Royal Society of Canada—Canadian Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences, and has been awarded honorary degrees from Prešov University in Slovakia (doctor honoris causa, 2013) and from Kamianets-Podilskyi National University in Ukraine (pochesnyi profesor, 2015). Dr. Magosci is interested in the history of nationalism, in particular among ethnic groups living in border areas. He has published in the fields of history, sociolinguistics, bibliography, cartography and immigration studies.