When did the Basilian Provincial House return to Winnipeg and why?
In 1931, The Canadian Basilian Mission became a separate Province, with it’s own Protohegumen (protoihumen), or Provincial Superior. Father Kryzanowsky was the first Provincial. Upon his death, the next Provincial, Father Benjamin Baranyk, moved the Provincial House to Edmonton, in 1940. In 1958, the Holy See established the Metropolitan See at Winnipeg, centre of the Ukrainian Church-life in Canada. The following year, newly-elected Protohegumen Father Boniface Sloboda, moved the Provincial Headquarters back to Winnipeg.
