Bishop Kurt’s rising Ruthenian star
After appointments Monday, Bishop Kurt Burnette leads more than half the eparchies of the Ruthenian Catholic Church.
Monday’s appointment of Bishop Kurt Burnette as apostolic administrator of two of the four Ruthenian eparchies in the U.S. signals his expanding role in the Byzantine Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic Church with some 400,000 members worldwide.
Bishop Kurt - it is common to refer to Ruthenian bishops by their first name - is Bishop of the Ruthenian Ep…