Archeparchy Przemyśl-Warsaw

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Archeparchy Przemyśl-Warsaw
Basic data
Rite church Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Country Poland
Diocesan bishop Eugeniusz Popowicz
Emeritus diocesan bishop Jan Martyniak
Parishes 84 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Catholics 32,000 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Diocesan priest 30 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Religious priest 17 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Catholics per priest 681
Permanent deacons 3 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Friars 62 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Religious sisters 87 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
rite Byzantine rite
Liturgical language Ukrainian
cathedral St. John the Baptist in Przemyśl
Co-cathedral Dormition of the Virgin Mary in Warsaw
Website www.cerkiew.net
Suffragan dioceses Wroclaw-Gdansk Eparchy
Ecclesiastical province
Map of the ecclesiastical province

The archeparchy Przemysl-Warsaw ( lat. : Archieparchia Premisliensis-Varsaviensis rite Byzantini ucraini ) is in Poland located archeparchy the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church , based in Przemyśl .

history

Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Przemyśl
Co-cathedral Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Warsaw

According to various sources, the diocese Przemyśl - Sambir and Sanok was founded in Poland around 1087 and was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Kiev . The first historical record began around 1218, in 1422 the Przemyśl and Sambir diocese was created. The bishopric was in Przemyśl, and in Sambir there was an episcopal residence . At the Synod of Brest in 1596 the split of the Orthodox Church in Poland-Lithuania and the emergence of the United Church . The Greek Catholic eparchy Przemyśl was finally subordinated to the Archeparchy of Kiev as a suffragan diocese in 1691 . On February 22, 1807, Pope Pius VII , with the Apostolic Constitution In universalis Ecclesiae , again changed the membership of the eparchy and made it subject to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Archeparch of Lemberg as a suffragand diocese.

The westernmost part of the diocesan area, the settlement area of ​​the Lemken , was spun off from the Przemyśl diocese in 1934 and then formed the apostolic administration (exarchate from 1941) Łemkowszczyzna (Lemkland). Until 1939, the Przemyśl Eparchy was one of the three Polish centers of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, along with Breslau and Lemberg. During the Second World War , Przemyśl was occupied by the German Empire . In the years 1939 to 1941 Lviv was incorporated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic . In 1941, after being conquered by German troops, like Przemyśl, Lemberg became part of the German General Government . When the city came back under Soviet rule in 1944, most of the Poles residing there were expelled. As a result of the border shifts after the Second World War , the Przemyśl-Sambir eparchy with the western part was transformed into the independent Greek-Catholic diocese of Przemyśl on March 31, 1947. In 1981 the diocesan borders were finally drawn for members of the Greek Catholic Church, which also included the Przemyśl-Warsaw diocese for the south-east of Poland.

The Przemyśl-Warsaw Eparchy was then elevated to an Archeparchy on May 24, 1996 by Pope John Paul II with the Apostolic Constitution Ad aptius providendum and renamed the Przemyśl-Warsaw Archepark.

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Individual evidence

  1. Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Ad aptius providendum , AAS 88 (1996), n.10, pp. 793f.