Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv

The Archdiocese of Lviv (of the Latins) (Latin: Archidioecesis Leopolitana Latinorum) (Ukrainian: Львівська архідієцезія) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in western Ukraine.

Its Cathedral archiepiscopal see is a Minor Basilica and (Minor) World Heritage Site: Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Lviv (Львів), Lviv Oblast. The diocese has a second Minor Basilica: Basilica of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, in Chernivtsi (Чернівці), Chernivtsi Oblast.

Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki is the current metropolitan archbishop of the archdiocese. In Kyiv exists Apostolic Nunciature to Ukraine since 1992.

The diocese was canonically erected in 1358 (or 1375^[1] ) as Diocese of Lviv / Lwow / Leopoli (Italian) / Leopolitan(us) Latinorum (Latin adjective)

• Promoted on August 28, 1412 by Pope Gregory XII 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年06月05日 to Diocese of Iaşi (Romania)
• Gained territory in 1945 from Diocese of Przemyśl (Poland, now Metropolitan)
• Lost territory in 1991 to establish the Apostolic Administration of Lubaczów.
• Pope John Paul II visited the archdiocese as part of his papal visit to Ukraine in June 2001. This included a Papal Address to the young people in Lviv.

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 priests, 1 permanent deacon and 213 religious in the archdiocese.^[2]

As per 2014: 12 deaneries, the area of 68,000 km2, 286 parishes.^[3]

The archdiocese is a metropolitan see with six Latin suffragan sees in its ecclesiastical province:

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

• Chernivtsi Oblast: Deanery of Chernivtsi ^[3]
• Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast: Deaneries of Halych and Ivano-Frankivsk ^[3]
• Ternopil Oblast: Deanery of Ternopil and Chortkiv ^[3]
• Lviv Oblast: Deaneries of Horodok, Lviv, Mostyska, Sambir, Stryi, Zolochiv, Zhovkva ^[3]

And also Seminary in Briukhovychi.^[3]

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年03月16日 – ?)
• Herman Wytkind, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1401年01月07日 – ?)

Metropolitan Archbishops of Lviv

• Jan Rzeszowski (1414年12月23日 – death 1436年08月12日), previously (last) Metropolitan Archbishop of merged-in Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halyč (Galicia, Ukraine) (1412年08月26日 – 1414年12月23日)

TO COMPLETE / ELABORATE

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  • Coadjutor Archbishop: Ferdynand Onufry Kicki (1778年09月28日 – 1780年10月25日)
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• Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz (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 - ... ).

TO BE ELABORATED AND WORKED-IN

• • Auxiliary Bishop: Marian Buczek (2002年05月04日 – 2007年07月16日)

•Auxiliary Bishop: Stanislaw Padewski, O.F.M. Cap. (1998 – 2002年05月04日) •Auxiliary Bishop: Markijan Trofimiak (1991年01月16日 – 1998年03月25日) •Auxiliary Bishop: Rafal Kiernicki, O.F.M. Conv. (1991年01月16日 – 1995年11月23日) •Auxiliary Bishop: Eugeniusz Baziak (later Archbishop) (1933年09月15日 – 1944年03月01日) •Auxiliary Bishop: Francis Lisowski (1928年07月20日 – 1933年01月27日) •Auxiliary Bishop: Bolesław Twardowski (later Archbishop) (1918年09月14日 – 1923年08月03日) •Auxiliary Bishop: Wladyslaw Bandurski (1906年09月26日 – 1932年03月06日) •Auxiliary Bishop: Joseph Weber, C.R. (1895年12月02日 – 1906年05月26日) •Auxiliary Bishop: Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko (later Cardinal) (1886年02月26日 – 1895年01月22日) •Auxiliary Bishop: Seweryn Morawski (later Archbishop) (1881年05月13日 – 1885年02月15日) •Auxiliary Bishop: Valery Henryk Kamionko (1815年07月10日 – 1840年08月26日) •Auxiliary Bishop: Kajetan Ignacy Kicki (later Archbishop) (1783年07月18日 – 1797年12月18日) •Auxiliary Bishop: Ferdynand Onufry Kicki (later Archbishop) (1777年04月23日 – 1778年09月28日) •Auxiliary Bishop: Kryspin Cieszkowski (1772年12月14日 – 1792?) •Auxiliary Bishop: Samuel Głowiński (1733年12月02日 – 1776年09月14日) •Auxiliary Bishop: Hieronim Maciej Jełowicki (1725年02月21日 – 1732年01月08日) •Auxiliary Bishop: Stefan Bogusław Rupniewski (1713年05月22日 – 1716年12月23日) •Auxiliary Bishop: John Skarbek (later Archbishop) (1696年01月02日 – 1713年01月30日)

• List of Catholic dioceses in Ukraine
• Roman Catholicism in Ukraine

• GCatholic.org - data for all sections
• Website of the Archdiocese
• catholic-hierarchy.org
• Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Lemberg"  . Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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