The Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ or of Our Saviour (), also called the Ivano-Frankivsk Jesuit Church, is an historic religious building in the city of

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 ...

in western

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J. Tokarski, ''Ilustrowany przewodnik po zabytkach kultury na Ukrainie'', t. 1, Warszawa 2000. which functions as a Catholic cathedral and seat of the Ivano-Frankivsk Eparchy (''Archieparchia Stanislaopolitanus'') using the Byzantine or Ukrainian rite (

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) in full communion with the Pope in Rome. The original church on the site was built for the

Jesuits The Society of Jesus (; abbreviation: S.J. or SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits ( ; ), is a religious order (Catholic), religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rom ...

between 1720 and 1729, but this structure was demolished as a result of technical errors. The present

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church was built between 1752 and 1761 by the ruler of the city, the governor of Poznan and Kiev Stanisław Potocki. Since 1885 it has been a Greek Catholic cathedral. It stands next to an old

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. The church has three naves and a west front with two towers. It is under the pastoral responsibility of Archbishop

Volodymyr Viytyshyn Archbishop Volodymyr Viytyshyn (; born 9 November 1959) is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch as an archbishop-metropolitan of Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk since 2 June 2005 (until 21 November 2011 in rank of Eparchial Bishop ...

who was ratified by

Pope Benedict XVI Pope BenedictXVI (born Joseph Alois Ratzinger; 16 April 1927 – 31 December 2022) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April 2005 until his resignation on 28 February 2013. Benedict's election as p ...

in 2005.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Resurrection of Christ Cathedral Eastern Catholic cathedrals in Ukraine Buildings and structures in Ivano-Frankivsk Roman Catholic churches completed in 1761 18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Ukraine

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