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Suffragan eparchy Sambir, Ukraine

Eparchy of Sambir-Drohobych

Samborien(sis)-­Drohobychien(sis)

Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

Ukrainian Greek Catholic eparchy covering six raions of Lviv Oblast, erected 20 April 1993 from the Archeparchy of Lviv, within whose metropolitan province it sits. The seat is the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Drohobych.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Holy Trinity Cathedral, Drohobych, in Sambir, Ukraine.

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Established
1993
Catholics
396,721
Priests
330
Territory
6,900 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Eparch
Yaroslav Pryriz, C.Ss.R.

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The cathedral

Holy Trinity Cathedral, Drohobych stands in Sambir, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Within the ecclesiastical province of Kyiv-Halych, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church maintains the Eparchy of Sambir-Drohobych. Yulian Voronovskyi, M.S.U., became its first eparch by appointment of Pope John Paul II on 30 March 1994, after serving as Archiepiscopal Administrator from the eparchy's founding in 1993.