The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv (of the Latins) ( la, Archidioecesis Leopolitana Latinorum) is a

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of the

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of the

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in western

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. Its

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archiepiscopal see is a

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and (Minor)

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: Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of the

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, in

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine ...

(Львів),

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The diocese has a second

: Basilica of the

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(Чернівці),

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. Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki is the current metropolitan archbishop of the

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. In

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exists

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since 1992.

History

The diocese was canonically erected in 1358 as Diocese of Lviv / Lwow / Leopoli (Italian) / Leopolitan(us) Latinorum (Latin adjective) * Promoted on August 28, 1412 by

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as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lviv / Lwow / Leopoli (Curiate Italian) / Leopolitan(us) Latinorum (Latin), having gained territory from the suppressed Metropolitan Archdiocese of Halyč (in Slavic Galicia) * Lost territory on 1930.06.05 to

Diocese of Iaşi In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...

(

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) * Gained territory in 1945 from

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(

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, now Metropolitan) * Lost territory in 1991 to establish the

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visited the archdiocese as part of his papal visit to Ukraine in June 2001. This included a Papal Address to the young people in

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 138,500 Roman Catholics (3.1% of 4,500,000 total) on 68,000 km² in 278 parishes with 196 priests (140 diocesan, 56 religious), 215 lay religious (76 brothers, 139 sisters) and 32 seminarians. As of 16 July 2007 there were 138

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, 1 permanent

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and 213

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in the archdiocese.Vatican Information Service July 16, 2007

Ecclesiastical province

The Metropolitan of the Archdiocese has six Latin

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sees : *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamianets-Podilskyi ( la, Dioecesis Camenecensis Latinorum) 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 appo ...

Roman Catholic Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia ( la, Dioecesis Kharkiviensis-Zaporizhiensis) 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 ...

Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr ( la, Dioecesis Kioviensis-Zytomeriensis) 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. ...

Roman Catholic Diocese of Lutsk The Roman Catholic diocese of Lutsk was first established in the 13th century as the diocese of Luceoria (Latin) or Łuck (Polish). After the victory of Napoleon, the diocese was joined with the diocese of Zhytomyr, forming the diocese of Lutzk-Z ...

Roman Catholic Diocese of Mukacheve The Roman Catholic Diocese of Mukachevo ( la, Dioecesis Munkacsiensis Latinorum) is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in Ukraine. Antal Majnek is the current bishop of the diocese. He was appointed to the See of Mukachevo (Hun ...

Roman Catholic Diocese of Odessa-Simferopol The Diocese of Odesa-Simferopol ( la, Odesensis-Sympheropolitanus) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in southern Ukraine and Crimea. A significant part of the Latin Church in Ukraine, it covers an area ...

Episcopal ordinaries

(all

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) :Also see/WORK-IN

List of Roman Catholic bishops of Lviv The Latin Archdiocese of Lviv ( la, Archidioecesis Leopolitanus Latinorum) was erected on August 28, 1412 in the city of Lwów (today Lviv). It serves as a metropolitan see of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine. The principal patron of the Arch ...

;''Suffragan Bishops of Lviv'' * Konrad (? – ?) ** ? 1375–1380 Maciej ** ? 1384–1390 Bernard ** ? 1391–1409 blessed

Jakub Strzemię Jakub Strzemię (c. 1340 - 20 October 1409) was a Polish Roman Catholic archbishop and a professed member of the Order of Friars Minor. He served as the Archbishop of Halicz from 1392 until his death when the archdiocese was incorporated into that ...

(Jakub Strepa) ** ? 1410–1412 Mikołaj Trąba * Jerzy Eberhardi,

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(O.F.M.) (1390.03.16 – ?) * Herman Wytkind,

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(O.P.) (1401.01.07 – ?) ;''Metropolitan Archbishops of Lviv'' * Jan Rzeszowski (1414.12.23 – death 1436.08.12), ''previously (last) Metropolitan Archbishop of merged-in

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halyč Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a letter ...

(Galicia, Ukraine) (1412.08.26 – 1414.12.23) * : TO COMPLETE / ELABORATE * ... * ... ** Coadjutor Archbishop: Ferdynand Onufry Kicki (1778.09.28 – 1780.10.25) * ... *

Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz (; cz, Ondřej Alois Ankwicz ze Skarbek–Peslawice; german: Andreas Alois Ankwicz von Skarbek-Poslawice) (22 June 1777 – 26 March 1838) was the Roman Catholic archbishop of Prague from 1833 to 1838. Biography Ankwicz was ...

(25 March 1815 - 30 Sep 1833), next metropolitan Archbishop of Praha (Prague) *

Franz Xaver Luschin Archbishop Franz Xaver Luschin ( sl, Franc Ksaver Lušin; 3 December 1781 – 2 May 1854) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as a Diocesan Bishop of Trento from 24 May 1824 until 23 June 1834, a Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic A ...

(18 March 1834 - 9 Jan 1835), next Archbishop of Gorizia e Gradisca * St.

Józef Bilczewski Józef Bilczewski (26 April 1860 – 20 March 1923) was a Polish Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Lviv from 1900 until his death. He served as a theological and dogmatics professor in the Lviv college after himself having ...

(17 Dec 1900 - death 30 March 1923) * Boleslaw Twardowski (3 August 1923 - death 22 Nov 1945) *

Eugeniusz Baziak Eugeniusz Baziak (; 8 March 1890 in Tarnopol – 15 June 1962 in Warsaw, Poland) was Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latins, Lviv and apostolic administrator of Kraków. Baziak was rector of the Clerical Seminarium in Lviv ...

(22 Nov 1945 - death 15 June 1962) * Marian Cardinal Jaworski (16 Jan 1990 - Retired 21 Oct 2008) *

Mieczysław Mokrzycki Mieczysław Mokrzycki (born 29 March 1961 in Majdan Lipowiecki) is the archbishop of Lviv. Early life and ordination Mokrzycki completed primary school in Łukawiec and Cieszanów, and then studied at the State Agricultural Technical School in O ...

(21 Oct 2008 - ... ).

Auxiliary episcopate

:TO BE ELABORATED AND WORKED-IN ** Auxiliary Bishop:

Marian Buczek Marian Buczek (born March 14, 1953, in Cieszanów, Poland) was the Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv in 2002-2009, and the diocesan Roman Catholic Bishop of Kharkiv-Zaporojian in 2009-2014. In the years 1973-1979, he studied at the Seminar ...

(2002.05.04 – 2007.07.16) •Auxiliary Bishop:

Stanislaw Padewski Stanislaw Padewski, O.F.M.Cap. (18 September 1932 – 29 January 2017) was a Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained to the priesthood in 1957, Padewski served as auxiliary bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi from 1995 to 1998 ...

, O.F.M. Cap. (1998 – 2002.05.04) •Auxiliary Bishop:

Markijan Trofimiak Markijan Trofimiak (born April 16, 1947 in Kozova, Ukraine) is a Roman Catholic bishop, Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv in 1991-1998 and diocesan Bishop of Lutsk in 1998-2012. Biography Born in Kozova, Ukraine. He was ordained on May 26, 1974 in Riga at ...

(1991.01.16 – 1998.03.25) •Auxiliary Bishop:

Rafal Kiernicki Rafal Wladyslaw Kiernicki ( uk, Рафал Владислав Керницький; pl, Rafał Władysław Kiernicki; 3 May 1912 – 23 November 1995) was a Roman Catholic prelate from Ukraine as the Titular Bishop of Dura and Auxiliary bishop o ...

, O.F.M. Conv. (1991.01.16 – 1995.11.23) •Auxiliary Bishop:

(later Archbishop) (1933.09.15 – 1944.03.01) •Auxiliary Bishop: Francis Lisowski (1928.07.20 – 1933.01.27) •Auxiliary Bishop:

Bolesław Twardowski Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski ( uk, Болеслав Твардовський; pl, Bolesław Twardowski; 18 February 1864 – 22 November 1944) was a Roman Catholic prelate, who served as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of ...

(later Archbishop) (1918.09.14 – 1923.08.03) •Auxiliary Bishop: Wladyslaw Bandurski (1906.09.26 – 1932.03.06) •Auxiliary Bishop: Joseph Weber, C.R. (1895.12.02 – 1906.05.26) •Auxiliary Bishop:

Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko Prince Jan Duklan Maurycy Paweł Puzyna de Kosielsko (13 September 1842 – 8 September 1911) was a Polish Roman Catholic Cardinal who was auxiliary bishop of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) from 1886 to 1895, and the bishop of Kraków from 1895 un ...

(later Cardinal) (1886.02.26 – 1895.01.22) •Auxiliary Bishop: Seweryn Morawski (later Archbishop) (1881.05.13 – 1885.02.15) •Auxiliary Bishop: Valery Henryk Kamionko (1815.07.10 – 1840.08.26) •Auxiliary Bishop: Kajetan Ignacy Kicki (later Archbishop) (1783.07.18 – 1797.12.18) •Auxiliary Bishop: Ferdynand Onufry Kicki (later Archbishop) (1777.04.23 – 1778.09.28) •Auxiliary Bishop: Kryspin Cieszkowski (1772.12.14 – 1792?) •Auxiliary Bishop: Samuel Głowiński (1733.12.02 – 1776.09.14) •Auxiliary Bishop: Hieronim Maciej Jełowicki (1725.02.21 – 1732.01.08) •Auxiliary Bishop: Stefan Bogusław Rupniewski (1713.05.22 – 1716.12.23) •Auxiliary Bishop: John Skarbek (later Archbishop) (1696.01.02 – 1713.01.30)

Footnotes

Sources and external links

GCatholic.org - data for all sectionsWebsite of the Archdiocese
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