METROPOLITAN JUDSON PROCYK, 70 Led Byzantine Archdiocese of Pittsburgh

YOUNGSTOWN -- Services and visitation are set for Metropolitan Judson Procyk, 70, of the Byzantine Archdiocese of Pittsburgh, who died Tuesday at his home in Observatory Hill, Pittsburgh.
Since 1995, he had been leader of the archdiocese, which covered western Pennsylvania to Texas and includes seven churches in Mahoning and Trumbull counties.
Visitation begins at 2 p.m. Saturday in St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Munhall, Pa., where a prayer service will be at 7 p.m. Sunday. His funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday in the cathedral.
Memorial services will be at Sts. Peter and Paul Byzantine Catholic Church in Warren after all liturgies Saturday and Sunday.
The archdiocese is part of the Ruthenian or Ukrainian rite of the Byzantine Church, the only self-governing Eastern Catholic Church in the United States. It includes 71,000 of the 236,000 Byzantine Catholics in the United States.
Other local parishes in the archdiocese are St. Nicholas', St. Mary's and St. George's in Youngstown; St. Michael's in Campbell, Infant Jesus of Prague in Boardman and St. Michael's in Newton Falls.
4/27/01