The Archdiocese of Lviv (of the Latins) () () is a

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ecclesiastical jurisdiction or

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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 ( or ; ; ; see #Names and symbols, below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the List of cities in Ukraine, fifth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of ...

(Львів),

Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast (, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna (, ), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast in western Ukraine. The capital city, capital of the oblast is the city of Lviv. The current population is History Name The region is named ...

. 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

. In

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exists

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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

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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

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(

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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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. *

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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 As per 2014: 12 deaneries, the area of 68,000 km², 286 parishes.Archdiocese of Lviv
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Ecclesiastical province

The archdiocese is a

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with six Latin

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sees in its

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: * Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi * Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia * Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr * Diocese of Lutsk * Diocese of Mukacheve * Diocese of Odesa-Simferopol.

Structure

: Deanery of

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: Deaneries of

Halych Halych (, ; ; ; ; , ''Halitsch'' or ''Galitsch''; ) is a historic List of cities in Ukraine, city on the Dniester River in western Ukraine. The city gave its name to the Principality of Halych, the historic province of Galicia (Eastern Europe), ...

and

Ivano-Frankivsk Ivano-Frankivsk (, ), formerly Stanyslaviv, Stanislav and Stanisławów, is a city in western Ukraine. It serves as the administrative centre of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast as well as Ivano-Frankivsk Raion within the oblast. Ivano-Frankivsk also host ...

Ternopil Oblast Ternopil Oblast (), also referred to as Ternopilshchyna () or Ternopillia (), is an Oblasts of Ukraine, oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its Capital (political), administrative center is Ternopil, through which flows the Seret (river), Seret, a tribu ...

: Deanery of

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and

Chortkiv Chortkiv (, ; ; ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Chortkiv Raion, housing the district's local administration buildings. Chortkiv hosts the administratio ...

: Deaneries of Horodok,

Mostyska Mostyska ( ; , both in the ' form), is a city in Yavoriv Raion, Lviv Oblast (region) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Mostyska urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The city is located in western portion of Sian Lowland near ...

Sambir Sambir (, ; ; ) is a city in Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It serves as the Capital city, administrative center of Sambir Raion (Raion, district) and is located close to the border with Poland. Sambir hosts the administration of Sambir urba ...

Stryi Stryi (, ; ) is a city in Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine. It is located in the left bank of the Stryi (river), Stryi River, approximately south of Lviv in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. It serves as the administrative center of Stryi R ...

, Zolochiv,

Zhovkva Zhovkva is a List of cities in Ukraine, city in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast (Oblast, region) of western Ukraine. Zhovkva hosts the administration of Zhovkva urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population is approximately History A ...

And also Seminary in

Briukhovychi Briukhovychi (; ) is a rural settlement in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It belongs to Lviv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Between 1939 and 1942, and again from 1944 to 1957, Briukhovychi was the center of Briukhovychi Raion. ...

Episcopal ordinaries

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

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(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 The Archdiocese of Halyč was a late-medieval Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Galicia (and originally Volhynia; both in present Ukraine) from 1367 until 1414. History * Established 1367 as Dioc ...

(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 (; ; ; 22 June 1777 – 26 March 1838) was the Roman Catholic archbishop of Lwów (Lviv) in 1815–1833 and archbishop of Prague in 1833–1838. Life Ankwicz was born in 1777 in Kraków, Polish Crown. Studied in his nativ ...

(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 Mieczysław Mokrzycki (born 29 March 1961 in Majdan Lipowiecki) is a Polish-born Catholic prelate, currently serving as the archbishop of Lviv of the Latins in Ukraine. Early life and ordination Mokrzycki completed primary school in Łukawiec ...

(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 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 Ro ...

, 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, O.F.M. Conv. (; ; 3 May 1912 – 23 November 1995) was a Roman Catholic prelate from Ukraine as the Titular Bishop of Dura and Auxiliary bishop of Archdiocese of Lviv since 16 January 1991 until his death on 23 Novembe ...

, 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 Archbishop 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 Lviv and a Titular Bishop of Telmessos from 14 September 1918 until 3 ...

(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 (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

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