Lviv Dormition Brotherhood ( uk, Львівське успенське братство) also known as ''Lviv Stauropegion Brotherhood'' was an influential religious organization associated with the Dormition Church in Lviv and one of the oldest Brotherhood Orthodox organizations. It was first an association of Orthodox and then, from 1708, also Greek Catholic burghers in

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. Like other brotherhoods in

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, it is also a military force tasked with defending the

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church and the faith, particularly against

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and

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influences.

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The organization possessed

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rights and oversaw not only activities of its secular members, but also clergy and sometimes bishops. Members of any estate had a chance to join the brotherhood. Money contributed to the society were used to fund Monastery and church of St. Onuphrius and Dormition Church. With the help of the brotherhood, Lviv Orthodox eparchy which was liquidated by the

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after annexation of Galicia (part of

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) was revived in 1539. Lviv Dormition Brotherhood had its own publishing house, operated hospitals, orphanages, elderly homes and provided other community services. It also founded a school in 1585 and campaigned against clerics who neglect their religious duties. It was also a military force that fought the Polish and Latin influences although it capitulated to the latter, subsequently joining ''

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'' or the Eastern Catholic Churches in the eighteenth century. Its first recorded organizational statute was approved by

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in 1586. In 1708 it finally accepted the

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. Following the

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, in 1788 the Austrian authorities liquidated the organizations which was reformed into the Stauropegion Institute. In 1989 Lviv Dormition Brotherhood was revived on the efforts of Volodymyr Yarema who at that time was a priest of the Moscow's Patriarchate Church of Peter and Paul. Since

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, it is associated with

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External links

Lviv Dormition Brotherhood
in the

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Lviv Dormition Brotherhood
in the Historical Dictionary of Ukraine
Lviv Regional Stauropegion Brotherhood
official website * Isaievych, Ya.
Lviv Brotherhood
'. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. {{Authority control Christian organizations based in Ukraine 15th-century Christianity 16th-century Christianity 17th-century Christianity History of Christianity in Ukraine Brotherhood (Orthodox lay societies) Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

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