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Suffragan eparchy Buchach, Ukraine

Eparchy of Buchach

Bucacen(sis)

Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

Ukrainian Greek Catholic (Byzantine rite) eparchy covering southern raions of Ternopil Oblast, erected 21 July 2000 from the Eparchy of Ternopil. It belongs to the metropolitan province of Ternopil-Zboriv; the seat is the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in Chortkiv.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, Chortkiv, in Buchach, Ukraine.

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Established
2000
Catholics
211,314
Priests
239
Territory
4,829 km²

Parishes and churches

308 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Eparch
Dmytro Hryhorak, O.S.B.M.

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The cathedral

Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, Chortkiv stands in Buchach, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Established on 21 July 2000, Buchach is an eparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine, suffragan to the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Ternopil-Zboriv. Its first eparch, Iryney Bilyk, O.S.B.M., served from 2000 to 2007; following his transfer to Rome in July 2007, Bishop Dmytro Hryhorak, O.S.B.M., became eparch on 23 July 2011.