Archeparchy of Lviv
Leopolitan(us) Armenorum
Archeparchy of the patriarchate · Armenian Catholic Church · Lviv, Ukraine
Armenian Catholic archeparchy established in 1630, immediately dependent on the Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia. The see has been vacant since World War II (last administered by Fr. Dionizy Kajetanowicz, 1938-1944); its former cathedral, the Armenian Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary in Lviv, now serves the Armenian Apostolic Church, and remaining faithful are pastorally served by the Armenian Catholic Ordinariate of Eastern Europe.
The see
- Rank
- Archeparchy of the patriarchate
- Tradition
- Armenian Catholic Church
- Erected
- 1630
- Latin
- Leopolitan(us) Armenorum
- Annuario code
- 001002080
The bishop
The register holds no ordinary for this see. Where a chair is vacant the vacancy is the fact, and it is recorded rather than filled in. See the bishop.
The cathedral
Armenian Cathedral of the Assumption of 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
From 1630 until 1944, Lviv was the seat of an Armenian Catholic archeparchy, a non-Metropolitan archdiocese of the Armenian Catholic Church sui iuris following the Armenian Rite. Rather than belonging to any ecclesiastical province, it answered immediately to the Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia, and in Rome it fell under the Congregation for the Oriental Churches. Its onetime cathedral, the Armenian Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary in Lviv, a minor World Heritage landmark, now serves as an Armenian Apostolic Church.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- . . . . ., Ukraina
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What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].