Ukrainian Christian Organization (Українська християнська організація; Ukrainska khrystyianska orhanizatsiia, or УХО; UKhO). A nonpolitical organization established in Lviv in 1925 for educating Ukrainian Catholics in a Catholic spirit and countering sectarian and communist influences. In 1930 it assumed the name Ukrainian Catholic Organization. It set up the newspaper Nova zoria (1926–38) and the Biblioteka UKhO publishing house. The organization remained loyal to the Polish state and favored a realistic policy aimed at winning autonomy for the Ukrainian territories under Poland. It opposed Ukrainian and Polish nationalism and criticized the Polish government for neglecting ‘burning Ukrainian problems.’ In the elections of 1928 it supported the Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance. The first president of UKhO was Rev Tyt Teodosii Halushchynsky, and its leading members included Osyp Nazaruk and Stepan Tomashivsky.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]