Saint Josaphat's Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted September, 2006

This church at 110 Franklin Avenue has two 1988 Toronto Historical Board plaques attached to the walls on either side of the front doors. One plaque is in English, the other in Ukrainian. Here's the text on the English one:

Plaque coordinates: 43.663448 -79.453608

Dedicated in 1914, St. Josaphat's is the city's earliest Ukrainian Catholic Institution. It was founded by the immigrants from western Ukraine who came to Toronto in the early 1900s. Settling in the area around West Toronto Junction, they held their first divine liturgy in a house at Edith Avenue in 1909. Two years later they had established a parish, purchased land, and petitioned the bishop in Winnipeg for construction of St. Josaphat's. The Ukrainian Catholic Church, in communion with Rome, follows the Byzantine Ukrainian rite. Destroyed by fire and rebuilt in modern style in 1965, St. Josaphat's today serves as the cathedral for the Ukrainian Catholic Community in eastern Canada.

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Posted July 19, 2011
Were the registrys destroyed in the fire that occurred? How would I contact someone to help me search wedding records in the years 1920 through 1923 for grandparents who were married in Toronto. Ukrainian grandfather Andrew Steven Solovey (from Kameniec Podolski) and Czech/Polish grandmother Elizabeth Pasternak from Spring Hill, Cape Breton Island. Search to find out a birth year of Andrew Solovey and to confirm his Ukrainian birth place.

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