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.
- “Catholic but Not Latin: Magisterial Endorsements of Eastern Catholic Liturgical Distinctiveness and the Challenges of Implementing Them,” in For Love of the Church, ed. Peter Lovrick (Novalis, 2022), 216-238.
- Entries in Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 4th ed., Andrew Louth (Oxford University Press, 2022): “Arcudius, Peter,” “Eastern Catholic,” “Greek Catholic,” Kostelnik, Havryil,” “Orientalium ecclesiarum,” “Ostroh (Ostrog) Bible,” “Ruthenian,” “Sheptytsky (Szeptyckyj), Andrey,” “Slipyj, Josyf” “Smotrytsky, Meletius,” “Uniate.”
- “Official Catholic Pronouncements Regarding Presbyteral Celibacy: Their Fate and the Implications for Catholic-Orthodox Relations” in Married Priests in the Catholic Church, ed. Adam DeVille (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021), 108-134.
- “Byzantine Christian Worship,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Religion (online), John Barton, editor; Paul Bradshaw, liturgy editor, available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.56
- Editorial: “The Sheptytsky Institute at Thirty-Three and Eastern Catholic Theology in the West,” Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 60 (2019): 1-8.
- “Eastern Christianity and Contemporary Art: What William Kurelek Can Teach the Church He Left Behind,” Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 60 (2019): 215-22.
- “‘Ancestral Traditions’:” Particularities, Problems, and Challenges of Their Revival in Greco-Catholic ‘Diasporas’,” Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 60 (2019): 223-32.