The Archdiocese of Halyč was a late-medieval
Latin Church
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ecclesiastical jurisdiction or
archdiocese
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associated ...
of the
Catholic Church
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in
Galicia (and originally Volhynia; both in present
Ukraine
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) from 1367 until 1414.
History
* Established 1367 as Diocese of Halyč / Galicia (English) / Halicien(sis) (Latin), on the political territory of
Galicia and surroundings in modern
Ukraine
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.
* Lost territory in 1375 in
Volhynia
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to establish the
Diocese of Lodomeria
* Promoted on 1375.02.13 as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Halyč / Galicia (English) / Halicien(sis) (Latin adjective)
* Suppressed on 1414.12.24, its territory being merged into the Metropolitan
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv (Lemberg, Lvov), which its last incumbent was indeed transferred to.
Ordinaries
;''Suffragan Bishops of Halyč''
* Tomasz ze Lwowa (1358 – death 1363)
* Krystyn z Ostrowa,
Conventual Franciscans
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(O.F.M. ?Conv.) (1364 – death 1371)
* Antoni (1371 – 1375)
;''Metropolitan Archbishops of Halyč''
* z Egeru (1376.01 – death 1380)
* Bernard, O.F.M. ?Conv. (1385 – death 1391)
* Blessed
Jakub Strzemię, O.F.M. ?Conv. (1392.10.28 – death 1409.10.20)
* Mikołaj Trąba (1410.06.18 – 1412.04.30), next Metropolitan Archbishop of
Gniezno
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(Gnesen,
Poland
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) (1412.04.30 – death 1422.12.02)
* Jan Rzeszowski (1412.08.26 – death 1414.12.23), next Metropolitan Archbishop of
Lviv
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(Lemberg, Lwow, Ukraine) (1414.12.23 – 1436.08.12).
See also
*
List of Catholic dioceses in Ukraine
Sources and external links
GCatholic - data for all sections
{{DEFAULTSORT:Halyc, Roman Catholic Archdiocese
Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Ex-Soviet Europe