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 Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in Western Ukraine, western Ukraine, and the List of cities in Ukraine, seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is o ...

(Львів),

Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast ( uk, Льві́вська о́бласть, translit=Lvivska oblast, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna ( uk, Льві́вщина, ), ). The name of each oblast is a relational adjective—in English translating to a noun adjunct w ...

The diocese has a second

: Basilica of the

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, in

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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 (

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) * Gained territory in 1945 from Diocese of Przemyśl (

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, now Metropolitan) * Lost territory in 1991 to establish the Apostolic Administration of Lubaczów. *

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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 * Roman Catholic Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia * Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr *

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 *

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 ;''Suffragan Bishops of Lviv'' * Konrad (? – ?) ** ? 1375–1380 Maciej ** ? 1384–1390 Bernard ** ? 1391–1409 blessed Jakub Strzemię (Jakub Strepa) ** ? 1410–1412 Mikołaj Trąba * Jerzy Eberhardi, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1390.03.16 – ?) * Herman Wytkind,

Dominican Order The Order of Preachers ( la, Ordo Praedicatorum) abbreviated OP, also known as the Dominicans, is a Catholic mendicant order of Pontifical Right for men founded in Toulouse, France, by the Spanish priest, saint and mystic Dominic of ...

(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 (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 wa ...

(25 March 1815 - 30 Sep 1833), next metropolitan Archbishop of Praha (Prague) * Franz Xaver Luschin (18 March 1834 - 9 Jan 1835), next Archbishop of Gorizia e Gradisca * St. Józef Bilczewski (17 Dec 1900 - death 30 March 1923) * Boleslaw Twardowski (3 August 1923 - death 22 Nov 1945) * Eugeniusz Baziak (22 Nov 1945 - death 15 June 1962) * Marian Cardinal Jaworski (16 Jan 1990 - Retired 21 Oct 2008) * Mieczysław Mokrzycki (21 Oct 2008 - ... ).

Auxiliary episcopate

:TO BE ELABORATED AND WORKED-IN ** Auxiliary Bishop: Marian Buczek (2002.05.04 – 2007.07.16) •Auxiliary Bishop: Stanislaw Padewski, O.F.M. Cap. (1998 – 2002.05.04) •Auxiliary Bishop: Markijan Trofimiak (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 of ...

, O.F.M. Conv. (1991.01.16 – 1995.11.23) •Auxiliary Bishop: Eugeniusz Baziak (later Archbishop) (1933.09.15 – 1944.03.01) •Auxiliary Bishop: Francis Lisowski (1928.07.20 – 1933.01.27) •Auxiliary Bishop: Bolesław Twardowski (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 unt ...

(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
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lviv, Roman Catholic Archdiocese Roman Catholic dioceses in Ukraine Religious organizations established in the 1410s Roman Catholic dioceses established in the 15th century 1412 establishments in Europe