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Roman Catholic Diocese Of Kharkiv–Zaporizhia
The Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia () is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in Ukraine. Pavlo Honcharuk is the current bishop of the diocese. The diocesan seat is the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kharkiv, and the co-cathedral is the Co-Cathedral of the Merciful Father in Zaporizhzhia Zaporizhzhia, formerly known as Aleksandrovsk or Oleksandrivsk until 1921, is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. It is the Capital city, administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Zaporizhzhia .... History The diocese was created in 2002, when territory from the dioceses of the Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, and the Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr was split off and merged. The result created two dioceses with Catholic of around 5 percent, and one diocese with only 0.4, which is one of the lowest for any diocese. Geography The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latins. Ordin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathedral Of The Assumption Of The Blessed Virgin Mary, Kharkiv
The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary ( ) also called Assumption Cathedral is the name given to a religious building affiliated with the Latin Church, Latin Catholic Church and is located in the city of Kharkiv, in Kharkiv Oblast in east part of the European country of Ukraine. The temple was built in neo-Gothic style between 1887 and 1892 on Gogol Street. The author of the temple project was a Polish architect, Bolesław Michałowski (1830-1909). He designed about 30 buildings in Kharkiv. In the 1930s, during the period of the Soviet Union the church was closed and turned into secular Local housed, among others, a cinema and an installation of the Communist Party. In 1992 the temple was returned to the Catholic faithful. Since 2002 is the cathedral of the new diocese of Kharkiv - Zaporizhzhia (''Dioecesis Kharkiviensis-Zaporizhiensis'', Харківсько-Запорізька дієцезія) that was created by bull "Ad plenius prospiciendum" of Pope John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Kamyanets-Podilskyi
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamianets-Podilskyi () is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in Ukraine. Maksymilian Leonid Dubrawski O.F.M is the current bishop of the diocese. He was appointed to the episcopal see of Kamianets-Podilskyi on 4 May 2002.Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Ukraine www.catholic-hierarchy.org History The history of the diocese begins with its founding in the around 1375 when , on the initiative of then king of Pola ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Organizations Established In 2002
A Christian () is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Christians form the largest religious community in the world. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title (), a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term '' mashiach'' () (usually rendered as ''messiah'' in English). While there are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict, they are united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance. The term ''Christian'' used as an adjective is descriptive of anything associated with Christianity or Christian churches, or in a proverbial sense "all that is noble, and good, and Christ-like." According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.3 billion Christians around the world, up from about 600 million in 1910. Today, about 37% of all Christians live in the Americas, about 26% live in Europe, 24% live in sub-Saharan Africa, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholicism In Ukraine
The Catholic Church in Ukraine (; ) is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Catholics make up 13-14% of the population of Ukraine. The majority of Catholics (80%) in Ukraine belong to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church (Greek Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo), while significant numbers of others belong to the Latin Church and Armenian Catholic Church. History and data The Catholic Church in Ukraine consists of members of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church as well as the Latin Church, Greek Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo, and the Armenian Catholic Church. The majority of Ukrainian Catholics belong to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The Latin Church in the territories of modern Ukraine has been strongly associated with Poland and Poles, but the church has emphasized a Ukrainian identity since the nation's independence from the Soviet Union. The history of the Catholic Church in modern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Deanery Of Sumy
The Roman Catholic Deanery of Sumy is a part of the Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine. It includes four north-eastern Ukrainian towns, Sumy, Romny, Konotop and Shostka. The center of the deanery is located on the high right bank of the Psel River (left tributary of the Dnieper), in one of the old districts in the heart of the ancient Ukrainian capital Sumy. In the Middle Ages, the town was annexed by the possessions of the Orthodox monastery of St. Sophronius of the Wilderness (near Putivl). The unique cave priory, founded by the first Greek missionaries who came to Kievan Rus' from Byzantine, was razed almost to the ground in the 1960s by communists. The Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the main church of the deanery, is located in Sumy. Other significant Roman Catholic sites in the region include the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary in Romny, the Church of Our Lady of Fatima in Konotop, and the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ordo Fratrum Minorum
The Order of Friars Minor (commonly called the Franciscans, the Franciscan Order, or the Seraphic Order; postnominal abbreviation OFM) is a mendicant Catholic religious order, founded in 1209 by Francis of Assisi. The order adheres to the teachings and spiritual disciplines of the founder and of his main associates and followers, such as Clare of Assisi, Anthony of Padua, and Elizabeth of Hungary, among many others. The Order of Friars Minor is the largest of the contemporary First Orders within the Franciscan movement. Francis began preaching around 1207 and traveled to Rome to seek approval of his order from Pope Innocent III in 1209. The original Rule of Saint Francis approved by the pope disallowed ownership of property, requiring members of the order to beg for food while preaching. The austerity was meant to emulate the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. Franciscans traveled and preached in the streets, while boarding in church properties. The extreme poverty required ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk
Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk, O.F.M. (, ''pol. Stanisław Szyrokoradiuk''; born 23 June 1956) is a Ukrainian prelate of the Catholic Church who became Bishop of Odesa-Simferopol since February 2020 after a year as Coadjutor Bishop there. He was Bishop of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia from 2014 to 2019 and Auxiliary Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr from 1994 to 2014. Life Shyrokoradiuk was born into a Polish Roman-Catholic family in Kornachivka (Kornaczówka), Yarmolyntsi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, on 23 June 1956. He graduated from a railway college in Zdolbuniv, performed his compulsory service in the Soviet Army from 1974 to 1976, and worked in factories. In 1980 he entered the Major Theological Seminary in Riga, Latvia, and one year later, he clandestinely joined the Franciscans. After completing his studies in theology and philosophy, he was ordained a priest on 4 June 1984. He returned to Ukraine in 1984 and worked as a parish priest in Slavuta and Pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OFM Cap
The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (; Post-nominal letters, postnominal abbr. OFMCap) is a religious order (Catholic), religious order of Franciscans, Franciscan friars within the Catholic Church, one of three "Religious institute#Nomenclature, First Orders" that reformed from the Order of Friars Minor, Franciscan Friars Minor Observant (OFMObs, now OFM), the other being the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, Conventuals (OFMConv). Franciscans reformed as Capuchins in 1525 with the purpose of regaining the original Habit (tunic) of St. Francis of Assisi and also for returning to a stricter observance of the rule established by Francis of Assisi in 1209. History Origins The Order arose in 1525 when Matteo da Bascio, an Order of Friars Minor, Observant Franciscan friar native to the Italian region of Marche, said he had been inspired by God with the idea that the manner of life led by the friars of his day was not the one which their founder, St. Francis of Assisi, had envisaged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanislaw Padewski
Stanislaw Padewski, OFMCap (born18 September 1932 – 29 January 2017) was a Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained to priesthood in 1957, Padewski served as auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi] from 1995 to 1998 and for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv, Archdiocese of Lviv from 1998 to 2002. He then served as bishop of the Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia from 2002 to 2009. Life Born in 1932 near Buczacz (then Tarnopol Voivodeship in eastern Poland, today Butschatsch, Ukraine), Padewski was forcibly resettled with his family in December 1945 to Nowe Miasteczko near Nowa Sól in western Poland. Padewski attended the lyceum in Nowa Sól for two years before entering the Capuchin convent in Sędziszów Małopolski in 1949, where he took the religious name ''Wenanty''. After his first vows in 1950, he made his perpetual vows on September 19, 1953 in the Capuchin monastery in Kraków. From 1952 to 1957, Stanisław Padewski studied philosophy and theology at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Lviv Of The Latins
The Archdiocese of Lviv (of the Latins) () () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in western Ukraine. Its Cathedral archiepiscopal see is a Minor Basilica and (Minor) World Heritage Site: Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Lviv (Львів), Lviv Oblast. The diocese has a second Minor Basilica: Basilica of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, in Chernivtsi (Чернівці), Chernivtsi Oblast. Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki is the current metropolitan archbishop of the archdiocese. In Kyiv exists Apostolic Nunciature to Ukraine since 1992. History The diocese was canonically erected in 1358 (or 1375) as Diocese of Lviv / Lwow / Leopoli (Italian) / Leopolitan(us) Latinorum (Latin adjective) * Promoted on August 28, 1412 by Pope Gregory XII as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lviv / Lwow / Leopoli (Curiate Italian) / Leopolitan(us) Latinorum (Latin), having gained territory from the suppres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Kyiv-Zhytomyr
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr () is a suffragan diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in Ukraine in ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latins. Its cathedral episcopal see is the St. Sophia's Cathedral, Zhytomyr. It also has, both in Kyiv: a Co-Cathedral of St. Alexander, and a former cathedral, now Church of St. Nicholas. History * Established in 1321 as Diocese of Kyiv / Chiovien(sis) (Latin) / Kiovien(sis) (Latin adjective) * The Diocese of Kyiv was established once more in 1405, with the help of the Dominican order. * Renamed in 1638 as Diocese of Kijów-Czernihów / Kyiv and Chernihiv (English) / Kiovien(sis) et Chiovien(sis) (Latin) * Suppressed on 1798.08.08, its territory being reassigned to establish the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lutsk and Zytomierz. * Restored on 1998.11.25 as Diocese of Kyïv–Zhytomyr / Kiovien(sis)–Zytomerien(sis) (Latin) on territory split off from the suppressed Diocese of Zhyto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
