Archbishop Borys Gudziak, (born 1960 in Syracuse, N.Y., PhD Harvard University 1992) is Metropolitan Archbishop of Philadelphia for the Ukrainian Catholics in the United States of America. He is Head of the Department of External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He also serves as President (chair of the board of directors) of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine.
Among Gudziak’s awards and distinctions are: the Cavalier of the Order of Legion of Honor (Chevalier de l’Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur) (2015), the Jan Nowak-Jeziorański Award in Wroclaw, Poland (2016), the Vasyl Stus literary award from the Ukrainian chapter of PEN (2018), and honorary doctorates from his alma mater, Syracuse University (2018), and from Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary (2021). In 2019 he received the Notre Dame Award for his work for religious and academic freedom, and for leadership of the first Catholic university established in the territory of the former Soviet Union.
