in 1977 , cardinal joseph the blind secretly from the vatican consecrated three bishops for the ukrainian church, one of whom became a guzar. it became known about his ordination. only 19 years later, cardinal lubomyr huzar returned to his homeland already after the declaration of independence, in 2001 he was appointed head of the ukrainian greek catholics. church that summer, for the first time in the history of ukraine , pope ivan paul ii came to lviv, and the guzar was also involved in his visit. and then his beatitude lubomyr advised president leonid kuchma to invite the pope to ukraine. then only the lord god knows, and a narrow circle of people, what were the obstacles until the last moment. that pope ivan paul ii came to ukraine, but his word was final: i am going, and he came to ukraine, one of the main tasks of lubomir huzar at the head of the church was its revival and spread in all regions of ukraine. it was under his leadership that the church formally ceased to be galician or western ukrainian, and gained national significance. then the throne of the head of the church was mo