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Metropolitan see Lviv, Ukraine

Archdiocese of Lviv

Leopolitan(us) Latinorum

Latin Church

Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese canonically erected in 1358 and promoted to metropolitan archdiocese on 28 August 1412, taking over from the suppressed Metropolitan see of Halych. Its six suffragans are Kamianets-Podilskyi, Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv-Zhytomyr, Lutsk, Mukacheve and Odesa-Simferopol; the seat is the Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lviv, a World Heritage Site.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Lviv, in Lviv, Ukraine.

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Established
1358
Catholics
138,000
Priests
197
Territory
68,000 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Archbishop
Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki

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The cathedral

Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Lviv stands in Lviv, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

History

Western Ukraine is home to the Archdiocese of Lviv (of the Latins) (Latin: Archidioecesis Leopolitana Latinorum, Ukrainian: Львівська архідієцезія, romanized: lvivska arkhidiyetseziya), a Latin Church ecclesiastical circumscription of the Catholic Church. Its cathedral, the Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lviv (Львів), Lviv Oblast, is a minor basilica and a (minor) World Heritage Site.