Santa Sofia on Via Boccea
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Patronage : | Holy wisdom |
| Architectural style : | |
| Title Church: | since 1985 |
| Cardinal priest | vacant |
| National Church | Ukraine |
| start of building | 1967 |
| Completion: | 1968 |
| Rite: | Byzantine rite |
| Address: | Via di Boccea, 478, 00168 Roma, Italy |
Santa Sofia a Via Boccea is a minor basilica , titular and national church in Rome.
It is consecrated to Holy Wisdom ( Sancta Sophia ), one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit . It was the main church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church during the period when St. George's Cathedral in Lviv was occupied by the Russian Orthodox Church . As one of the three national churches of the Ukrainians, it is the meeting place and religious center in Rome.
The church was built in 1967 and 1968 by order of Jossyf Cardinal Slipyj , Archbishop of Lviv and Grand Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. It is modeled on the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev and relics of Pope Clement I are kept in it. The Divine Liturgy is celebrated in the Byzantine rite . It has an iconostasis painted by Juvenalij Josyf Mokryckyj .
In 1985 Pope John Paul II made it a titular church and in 1998 a basilica minor.
Cardinal priest
- Myroslaw Lyubachivskyi , Archbishop of Lviv, May 25, 1985 to December 14, 2000
- Ljubomyr Husar , Grand Archbishop of Lviv, January 26, 2001 to May 31, 2017
Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′ 42.2 " N , 12 ° 23 ′ 50.8" E
Individual evidence
- ^ David M. Cheney: Lviv (Archeparchy) (Catholic-Hierarchy). Retrieved May 1, 2017 .