The Latin Archdiocese of Lviv ( la, Archidioecesis Leopolitanus Latinorum) was erected on August 28, 1412 in the city of Lwów (today

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). It serves as a metropolitan see of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine. The principal patron of the Archdiocese is the

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. Archdiocese of Lviv today is divided between Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church and Armenian Catholic Church. Armenian Catholic Church has only one diocese in Ukraine and vacant since 1954.

History

In 1909 Pope Pius X proclaimed the

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and Blessed Jakub Strzemię to be the patrons of the Lviv archdiocese. In 1910 the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland became the principal patron. Nowadays the principal patron is the Blessed Virgin Mary Mother of Mercy (NMP Łaskawa). The patron's day is celebrated on 1 April, the day when King of Poland Jan II Kazimierz Waza took an oath at the Lwów Cathedral in 1655, during "

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," took vows of loyalty to God and declared the Mother of God to be the Queen of

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List of Roman Catholic bishops of Lviv

Bishops of Lwów (Lviv)

* 1375–1380 Maciej * 1384–1390 Bernard * 1391–1409 bl. Jakub Strzemię (Jakub Strepa) * 1410–1412

Mikołaj Trąba Mikołaj Trąba (; 1358 – 2 December 1422), of Trąby coat of arms, was a Polish Roman Catholic priest, Royal Notary from 1390, Deputy Chancellor of the Crown 1403–12, bishop of Halicz 1410–12, archbishop of Gniezno from 1412, and first pr ...

Metropolitan Archbishops of Halicz (Halych)

Metropolitan Archbishops of Lwow (Lviv)

''In 1414 a metropolitan see was moved from

Halych Halych ( uk, Га́лич ; ro, Halici; pl, Halicz; russian: Га́лич, Galich; german: Halytsch, ''Halitsch'' or ''Galitsch''; yi, העליטש) is a historic city on the Dniester River in western Ukraine. The city gave its name to the P ...

. Diocese of Halicz was merged with diocese of Lwow.

Metropolitan Archbishops of Lviv (and Ukraine ''de facto'')

''An attempt to liquidate the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine was made with the start of

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in 1939 and partition of Poland between

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and

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. After

and until fall of the

, the archdiocese of Lwów was centered in

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. * 1944–1962

Eugeniusz Baziak Eugeniusz Baziak (; 8 March 1890 in Tarnopol – 15 June 1962 in Warsaw, Poland) was Archbishop of Lviv and apostolic administrator of Kraków. Baziak was rector of the Clerical Seminarium in Lviv. Since 1933 he was an auxiliary bishop and, sinc ...

**1962–1964 Michał Orliński (

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) **1964–1973 Jan Nowicki (Apostolic Administrator in Lubaczów) **1973–1983 Marian Rechowicz (Apostolic Administrator in Lubaczów) **1983–1984 Stanisław Cały (Apostolic Administrator in Lubaczów) **1984–1991

Marian Jaworski Marian Franciszek Jaworski ( uk, Мар'ян Францішек Яворський, 21 August 1926 – 5 September 2020) was a Cardinal Priest and Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latins, Archbishop of Lviv of the Latins in the Roman ...

(Apostolic Administrator in Lubaczów) * 1991–2008

* 2008–present

Mieczysław Mokrzycki Mieczysław Mokrzycki (born 29 March 1961 in Majdan Lipowiecki) is the archbishop of Lviv. Early life and ordination Mokrzycki completed primary school in Łukawiec and Cieszanów, and then studied at the State Agricultural Technical School in ...

Auxiliary bishops

References

External links

The Archbishop Metropolitan of Lviv of the Latin Rite
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