Archeparchy of Lviv (Ukrainians)

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Archeparchy of Lviv (Ukrainians)
Lviv Archeparchy Map (Ukrainians)
Basic data
Rite church Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Country Ukraine
Diocesan bishop Ihor Wosnjak CSsR
Auxiliary bishop Volodymyr Hruza CSsR
founding 1539
surface 3,767 km²
Parishes 289 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 1,068,773 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 812,523 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 76%
Diocesan priest 390 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 99 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 1,662
Permanent deacons 2 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Friars 263 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 244 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Byzantine rite
Liturgical language Ukrainian
cathedral Saint George's Cathedral
Website www.ugcc.lviv.ua
Suffragan dioceses Eparchy Sambir-Drohobych
Eparchy Sokal-Schowkwa
Eparchy Stryj
Ecclesiastical province
Map of the ecclesiastical province {{{ecclesiastical province}}}
Saint George's Cathedral

The archeparchy Lviv ( Latin Archieparchia Leopolitana Ucrainorum , Ukrainian Львівська архієпархія Lwiwska archijeparchija ) is in the Ukraine located archeparchy the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church , based in Lviv .

history

The eparchy came into being in 1539 with the relocation of the seat of the Orthodox Diocese of Halych , which was established in the mid-twelfth century and was the metropolitan seat from 1303 to 1401 (relocation to Kiev).

At first she did not join the church union of Brest from 1596, but in 1677 came into full communion with the Catholic Church .

Pope Pius VII united the Lemberg Eparchy, established in 1539, with the Apostolic Constitution In universalis Ecclesiae on February 22, 1807 with the Halytsch Eparchy and raised it to the metropolitan bishopric of the Chełm and Przemyśl Eparchies .

On March 26, 1885, it lost parts of its territory to the Stanislav Eparchy (now Ivano-Frankivsk).

On March 9 and 10, 1946, the Soviet authorities staged a false synod at which they forced 216 priests summoned to Saint George's Cathedral to sign a renunciation of the Union of Brest. The Greek Catholic Church, which remained active underground, was persecuted and suffered torture and deportation. Some have been proclaimed martyrs and blessed and are among the " twenty-five blessed of the Greek Catholic Church " .

On December 23, 1963, the archparchy was elevated to a major archbishopric. On April 20, 1993, it lost parts of its territory to the eparchies Sambir-Drohobych , Ternopil and Zboriv .

On November 25, 1995, she lost parts of her territory to the Apostolic Exarchate of Kiev-Vyshhorod . On July 21, 2000, she lost parts of her territory to the Sokal-Shovkva eparchy . Since December 6, 2004 it was no longer a metropolitan bishopric, but was raised to the status of a metropolitan bishopric again on November 29, 2011. The seat of the Grand Archbishopric was moved to Kiev on August 29, 2005.

Archbishop Ihor Wosnjak was appointed the first Archbishop of Lemberg on November 10, 2005 . The diocese area covers the central part of Lviv Oblast . The area is shown in yellow on the map below.

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