Archeparchy Przemyśl-Warsaw
Archeparchy Przemyśl-Warsaw | |
Basic data | |
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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 | |
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
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.
See also
Web links
- Official website (Ukrainian and Polish)
- Entry on Archeparchy Przemyśl-Warsaw on catholic-hierarchy.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Ad aptius providendum , AAS 88 (1996), n.10, pp. 793f.