Молилися в саду, тепер будують український храм: історія парафії УГКЦ у Сан-Дієго

The Ukrainian Catholic community in San Diego is building a new church featuring domes and crosses manufactured in Ukraine. After years of praying in borrowed spaces and in a parishioner's garden during the pandemic, the community is establishing a permanent home for St. John the Baptist parish.

Father Yuriy Sas, the administrator of the parish within the Eparchy of Saint Nicholas of Chicago, noted that the community recently experienced a sense of spiritual unity when a reliquary they purchased in 1982 was transferred to the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv. The reliquary traveled from San Diego to Chicago, then to Lviv for regilding, before arriving at the cathedral in Kyiv. Father Sas said the community feels a close connection to the Patriarchal Church when watching services broadcast from the cathedral.