Aims and Objectives
The Parish Council* is a representative body of all the parishioners and organizations in the parish, whose purpose is to promote the mission of the Church. In its nature, it is a consultative body which helps the parish priest (pastor) in administration of the parish, who is the only legal representative** of the parish and to whom is entrusted the care of the parish and of its faithful.***
The Parish Council is the main coordinating and unifying body of the parish and is responsible for overall parish pastoral and material care, formulating policies and procedures, developing goals and objectives, and reviewing their implementation regularly.
The Parish Council’s role is spiritual, pastoral, financial and administrative planning and related consultations, as well as to maintain and supervise material properties and administer finances of the parish.
*Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (CCEO), Canon 295: In the parish there are to be appropriate councils dealing with pastoral and economic matters, according to the norms of the particular law of its own Church sui iuris.
**Ibid, Can. 290, §1: In all juridic affairs the pastor represents the person of the parish
***Ibid, Can. 281, §1: The pastor is to be a presbyter to whom, as the principal cooperator of the eparchial bishop, is entrusted the care of souls as their proper shepherd in a determined parish under the authority of the same eparchial bishop.
Parish Council Members for the year 2023/2024
The members of the Parish Council are elected at the Parish Annual General Meeting, according to the norms of the Parish Council Constitution.
Elected Executive Council members:
Chairperson: Wayne Hofstra
Vice Chairperson: Vincent Ignatiuk
Secretary: Oristeen Kell
Treasurer: Lesia Lazurko
Elected Council members at large:
Carla Lazurko
Curtis Panio
Mark Piniach
Robert Oscienny
Ex-Officio Members:
President/Pastor: Fr. Warren Dungen
Past Chairman: Terry Kuzyk
UCWLC: Betty Pollock
UCBC: O’Neil Zuck
UCYC: Lesia Lazurko
K of C: James Empey
(these representatives are selected by their respective organizations)
Nominated but not as a part of Parish Council:
Auditors: James Empey, O’Neil Zuck, Shirley Oleskiw
(all these members are nominated for a one (1) year term)