 Michael Dudick replaced Kocisko as Bishop of Passaic.Pope Paul VI on February 21, 1969 published a decree entitled "Quandoquidem Christus", which elevated the status of the Byzantine Catholic Church in America from two separate eparchies to a metropolia.The Eparchy of Pittsburgh now rose to the status of an Archeparchy, or archdiocese in Latin Church terminology, to be headed by an archbishop and to be called the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh.