Archeparchy of Lviv (Armenians)

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Armenian Cathedral Lviv , until the Second World War Cathedral of the United Armenians, handed over to the autocephalous Armenian Apostolic Church in 2001

The archeparchy Lviv ( Latin Archieparchia Leopolitana Armenorum ) is an Armenian Catholic archeparchy in the Ukraine .

history

Armenians have been living in Lviv (now Lviv ) since the 14th century . In 1630 they received their own diocese with the Archeparchy of Lemberg , which also became a metropolitan seat. Formerly about 5,000 Armenian Christians who lived in 3 deaneries with 9 parishes and 19 chapels and 20 priests, who were often biritual, i.e. celebrating worship in the Armenian and Roman Catholic rites , there was also a monastery in Lviv between 11 and 19 Armenian Benedictine women .

Before the Second World War the archbishop died without a successor having been elected. On May 4, 1945, the administrator of the archepary was arrested and deported to Siberia , where he also died. As early as 1946, the majority of the faithful and 8 priests moved to Poland, which the Benedictine Sisters followed in 1947. The archparchy had thus quasi dissolved and is still under vacancy to this day .

Since the congregation only had between 20 and 30 believers in 1991, they could no longer reclaim their cathedral from the state .

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literature

  • Christian Weise: Traces of the Armenian community in Lviv. From the settlement of the Armenians in the Ukraine in the 11th century to the end of the Armenian communities in the years 1940-1946 and their re-establishment in 1989. In: Günter Prinzing, Andrea Schmidt (Ed.): Das Lemberger Evangeliar. An Armenian Illuminated Manuscript (= Languages ​​and Cultures of the Christian East 2) Wiesbaden 1997, pp. 143–169.
  • Christian Weise: The Armenian Diocese of Ukraine. In: Der Christian Osten 58 (2003) 237–248. (Here the other relevant Italian, Polish and Ukrainian literature. Cf. also reviews with mention of further literature in the Armenian-German correspondence)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Armenians , Armenians in Ukraine, article on www.encyclopediaofukraine.com, accessed on November 21, 2008.
  2. ↑ cf. Year 1630, Diocese Events , Archeparchy Founding, data from www.catholic-hierarchy.org, accessed November 21, 2008.