Rev. Peter Galadza, PhD

Professor Emeritus of Eastern Christian Liturgy

Former Director, Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies

Peter Galadza specializes in Byzantine liturgical theology, history and pastoral liturgy, as well as Orthodox-Catholic relations and 20th-century Ukrainian Catholicism. His contribution to liturgical scholarship is the subject of the chapter, “La riforma liturgica nel pensiero di P. Galadza,” in Marcel Mojzeš’s, Il movimento liturgico nelle Chiese bizantine: Analisi di alcune tendenze di reforma nel XX secolo, Bibliotheca “Ephemerides Liturgicae” Subsidia 132 (Rome: Edizioni Liturgiche, 2005).

In 2022 Fr. Galadza held the Basil H. Losten Visiting Professorship in Ukrainian Church Studies at the Catholic University of America, and has been a research fellow at Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Research Center, as well as President of the international academic association, Societas Orientalium Liturgiarum, founded by Robert F. Taft., SJ.