The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamianets-Podilskyi () is a

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of the

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of the

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. Maksymilian Leonid Dubrawski O.F.M is the current bishop of the

. He was appointed to the

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Kamianets-Podilskyi Kamianets-Podilskyi (, ; ) is a city on the Smotrych River in western Ukraine, western Ukraine, to the north-east of Chernivtsi. Formerly the administrative center of Khmelnytskyi Oblast, the city is now the administrative center of Kamianets ...

on 4 May 2002.Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Ukraine
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History

The history of the diocese begins with its founding in the

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around 1375 when

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, on the initiative of then king of Poland

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, erected the diocese in

. It was subordinated to the metropolis of

Halych Halych (, ; ; ; ; , ''Halitsch'' or ''Galitsch''; ) is a historic List of cities in Ukraine, city on the Dniester River in western Ukraine. The city gave its name to the Principality of Halych, the historic province of Galicia (Eastern Europe), ...

in the administrative region of Halych Land. The borders of the diocese coincided with the borders of the Palatinate of Podolia. From 1412 until 1798 the Kamianets-Podilskyi diocese was subordinated to the

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metropolis, in the

Ruthenian Voivodeship The Ruthenian Voivodeship (; ; ) was a voivodeship of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1434 until the First Partition of Poland in 1772, with its center in the city of Lwów (lat. Leopolis) (modern day Lviv). Together with a number of ot ...

. In 1772, the diocese had 59 parishes grouped in 6 deaneries: Czornokozynci,

Dunaivtsi Dunaivtsi (, ; ; ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city in Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. It is located on the river Ternavka, 22 km away from the railway station Dunaivtsi and 68 km from the Khmelnytskyi, Ukr ...

Yazlovets Yazlovets (; ) is a village in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. It is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage centre of local significance. The village belongs to the hromada, Buchach urban hromada. It lies on the Vilchivchik river, a tributary of t ...

Medzhybizh Medzhybizh (; ; ; ), formerly Mezhybozhe, is a Populated places in Ukraine#Rural settlements, rural settlement in Khmelnytskyi Oblast, western Ukraine. It is located in Khmelnytskyi Raion, 25 kilometres from Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine, Khmelnytskyi o ...

Sataniv Sataniv (; ; ; ) is a rural settlement in Khmelnytskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Sataniv settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: History Known in historical documents since 1404, ...

Sharhorod Sharhorod (, ) is a small List of cities in Ukraine, city located within the Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine. It served as the administrative center of the former Sharhorod Raion until its dissolution in 2020. Population: Sharhorod also has a number o ...

. In the diocese, there were 87 Roman Catholic churches (including 23 monks and 2 nuns), as well as parish

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with the permission to celebrate

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. In 1795, Russian empress

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abolished the Kamianets-Podilskyi Diocese, only to be restored a few years later in 1798 by

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, who placed the Kamianets-Podilskyi bishopric under the authority of the

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as its metropolis. In 1866, the diocese was again abolished by the

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. From the years 1867-1918 it was administered by the bishops of Lutsk-Zhytomyr.

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reactivated the Kamianets-Podilskyi diocese in 1918. The diocese was split on 22 September 1918 from the Diocese of Lutsk, Zhytomyr, and Kamianets-Podilskyi; at the time, the diocese comprised most of the

Ukrainian Soviet Republic The Ukrainian Soviet Republic (; ) was a Soviet republic created by the Ukrainian Bolsheviks after the Second All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets declared independence of Soviet Ukraine in March 1918 and merged the Ukrainian People's Republic o ...

. From 24 September 1918 the ordained priest of Kamianets-Podilskyi was received for

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to Bishop of Kamianets-Podilskyi by the

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Adam Stefan Sapieha Prince Adam Stefan Stanisław Bonifacy Józef Sapieha (; 14 May 1867 – 23 July 1951) was a Polish Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Kraków from 1911 to 1951. A member of the Polish nobility, between 1922 and 1923 he was a senator ...

.Archbishop Pietro Mańkowski, Bishop Emeritus of Kamyanets-Podilskyi
www.catholic-hierarchy.org The diocese was held in ''

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'' by the Roman Catholic priest until 26 August 1919 when Bishop Mańkowski took over following the arrest of Nosalewski by the

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and threatened with execution. After the return of Bishop Mańkowski, Nosalewski who had suffered arrest twice and released, continued to serve as

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of the Kamianets-Podilskyi diocese until 1926. On 8 December 1919, the ceremonial ingress of Bishop Mańkowski at Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral took place in Kamianets-Podilskyi. Six months later, on 5 July 1920, Bishop Mańkowski was forced to leave the diocese and went into exile. At first, he was in

Buchach Buchach (, ; ; or ; ; ; ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city located on the Strypa River (a tributary of the Dniester) in Chortkiv Raion of Ternopil Oblast (Oblast, province) of Western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Buchach urban h ...

, and then in

Volodymyr-Volynskyi Volodymyr (, ), previously known as Volodymyr-Volynskyi () from 1944 to 2021, is a small city in Volyn Oblast, northwestern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative centre of Volodymyr Raion and the center of Volodymyr urban hromada. It is one ...

in the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Lutsk The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lutsk was first established in the 13th century as the diocese of Luceoria (Latin) or Łuck (Polish). After the victory of Napoleon, the diocese was joined with the Diocese of Zhytomyr, forming the diocese of Lutzk- ...

. Many priests from the Kamianets diocese worked in the Lutsk diocese during the

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. On 2 September 1922, the clergy, Władisław Dworżecki, Feliks Lubczyński, Antoni Niedzielski, Walerian Szymanski and Ryszard Szyszko-Bohusz were sentenced to death by the Soviet

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in Kamianets-Podilskyi for opposing the confiscation of church property and

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. The sentence was later changed into a prison sentence, from which the convicted priests were bought back by the faithful. As a result of the political tensions, changes in borders after the

Peace of Riga The Treaty of Riga was signed in Riga, Latvia, on between Poland on one side and Soviet Russia (acting also on behalf of Soviet Belarus) and Soviet Ukraine on the other, ending the Polish–Soviet War (1919–1921). The chief negotiators o ...

and pressure from the

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, Bishop Mańkowski resigned on 9 February 1926 from the bishopric of Kamianets-Podilskyi and became the titular Archbishop of Aenus.Aenus, (Titular See) Aeniensis
www.catholic-hierarchy.org On 31 March 1926, the apostolic administrator of the diocese was Jan Świderski. Archbishop Mańkowski died suddenly whilst travelling in a train carriage on 8 April 1933 at the age of 66 years, he was buried in the crypt of Lutsk cathedral. On 16 January 1991,

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renewed the Kamianets-Podilskyi diocese and appointed bishop Jan Olszanski. In 1993 this diocese gained some territories from the Diocese of Tiraspol. On 10 June 1995

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of the diocese

Stanislaw Padewski Stanislaw Padewski, OFMCap (born18 September 1932 – 29 January 2017) was a Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained to priesthood in 1957, Padewski served as auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi] from 1995 to 1998 and for the Ro ...

, a Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, Capuchin priest, received episcopal ordination in Kamianets cathedral and later became the bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia The Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia () is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in Ukraine. Pavlo Honcharuk is the current bishop of the diocese. The diocesan seat is the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in ...

. On 7 April 1998,

Leon Dubrawski Maximilian Leon Dubrawski (; born 1 July 1949) is the Roman Catholic bishop of Kamianets-Podilskyi. Life Dubrawski was born near Zhytomyr, present day Ukraine. In 1978 he entered the seminary in Riga. On 31 August 1982 he joined the Franciscan Or ...

was ordained auxiliary bishop of Kamianets-Podilskyi diocese, he was ordained by the

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in Ukraine by Archbishop Antonio Franco. He was appointed bishop of Kamianets-Podilskyi diocese on 4 May 2002 when Jan Olszański retired. In May 2002, the diocese was split in three dioceses, to create the Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia and the Diocese of Odesa-Simferopol.

Geography

The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latins.

Ordinaries

*Stanisław Józef Hozjusz † ( 1722 Appointed – 1733 Appointed, Bishop of

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) *Franciszek Antoni Kobielski † ( 1736 Appointed – 1739 Appointed, Bishop of Luceoria o Łuck) *Adam Stanisław Krasiński † ( 1757 Appointed – 1798 Resigned) *Francesco Borgia Machiewiez † (15 March 1815 Appointed – ) *Mikołaj Gòrski † (27 June 1853 Appointed – 1855) *Antoni Fijalkowski † (23 March 1860 Appointed – 23 February 1872 Appointed, Archbishop of Mohilev) *Petro Mankowski † (24 September 1918 Appointed – 9 February 1926 Resigned) * Jan Olszanski, M.I.C. † (16 January 1991 Appointed – 4 May 2002 Retired) * Maksymilian Leonid Dubrawski, O.F.M. (4 May 2002 Appointed – )

References

External links

GCatholic.org

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History

Geography

Ordinaries

See also

References

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