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__NOTOC__ Univ Holy Dormition Lavra of the Studite Rite () is the only
lavra A lavra or laura (; Cyrillic: Ла́вра) is a type of monastery consisting of a cluster of cells or caves for hermits, with a church and sometimes a refectory at the center. Lavra monasteries operate within the Orthodox and other Eastern Chri ...
of the
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) is a Major archiepiscopal church, major archiepiscopal ''sui iuris'' ("autonomous") Eastern Catholic Churches, Eastern Catholic church that is based in Ukraine. As a particular church of the Cathol ...
. It is situated in
Univ University College, formally The Master and Fellows of the College of the Great Hall of the University commonly called University College in the University of Oxford and colloquially referred to as "Univ", is a constituent college of the Univer ...
,
Lviv Raion Lviv Raion () is a raion (district) of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It was created on 18 July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. The center of the raion is the city of Lviv. Four abolished raions, Horodok, Peremyshliany, ...
,
Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast (, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna (, ), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast in western Ukraine. The capital city, capital of the oblast is the city of Lviv. The current population is History Name The region is named ...
. The monastery houses about 100
Studite Brethren The Ukrainian Studites (), formally the Monks of the Studite Rule (; ; abbreviated MSU) are a monastic order of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. History The Studite rule was developed at the Stoudios monastery of Constantinople, from the 5 ...
.


History

The original Orthodox monastery was founded ca. 1400 by Theodore, the son of
Liubartas Liubartas or Demetrius of Liubar (died ) was a Lithuanian prince from the Gediminid dynasty. He was the prince of Volhynia, and from 1320, he ruled over Lutsk, Liubar and Zhytomyr. Liubartas was also the last ruler of the Kingdom of Galicia–Vo ...
. Parts of the 15th century walls survive. The abbey was surrounded by a high
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and a deep
moat A moat is a deep, broad ditch dug around a castle, fortification, building, or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary line of defence. Moats can be dry or filled with water. In some places, moats evolved into more extensive water d ...
. The main church is dedicated to the
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. It was built after a
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raid in 1548 and looks like a small fortress. A two-storey
bell tower A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell to ...
from the 1630s stands nearby. In the 18th century Univ housed a printing house. The monastery was disbanded in 1790.
Mykhajlo Levitsky Michael Levytsky (or ''Levytskyi'' or ''Levitsky'' (, )); 17 February, 1774 – 14 January, 1858) was the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from 1816 until his death in 1858 and a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. ...
transformed the property into his residence. The moat was filled in and parts of the medieval wall were demolished. Levitsky's summer palace dates from the 1820s. The lavra was re-established in 1904 on the basis of the Krystinopil (now
Chervonohrad Sheptytskyi (, ), formerly Chervonohrad (, ), historically Krystynopol, is a historical mining town and the administrative center of Sheptytskyi Raion, Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Sheptytskyi urban hromada, o ...
) Basil Monastery by the Metropolitan
Andrey Sheptytsky Andrey Sheptytsky, OSBM (; ; 29 July 1865 – 1 November 1944) was the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Metropolitan of Galicia and Archbishop of Lviv from 1901 until his death in 1944. His tenure in office spanned two world wars and six political r ...
. File:Church of the martyr Clement and Leontius. Univ Lavra.JPG, Church of the martyr Clement and Leontius. File:A copy of the tomb of Alexander Vanka Lahodovskoho the Holy Assumption Univ Lavra.JPG, A copy of the tomb of Alexander Vanka Lahodovskoho the Holy Assumption File:Temple of the Ascension of the Lord UGCC. Univ village.JPG, Temple of the Ascension of the Lord UGCC.


See also

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Persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union Throughout the history of the Soviet Union (1922–1991), there were periods when Soviet authorities suppressed and persecuted various forms of Christianity to different extents depending on state interests. Soviet Marxist-Leninist policy c ...
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USSR anti-religious campaign (1917–1921) Opposition to Russian Orthodox Church during the Russian Civil War refers to the opposition to the Russian Orthodox Church and its institutions across the territories held by the former Russian Empire after the fall of the Tsarist regime and erup ...
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USSR anti-religious campaign (1921–1928) The USSR anti-religious campaign (1921–1928) was a campaign of anti-religious persecution against churches and Christian believers by the Soviet government following the initial anti-religious campaign during the Russian Civil War. The elimi ...
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USSR anti-religious campaign (1928–1941) The USSR anti-religious campaign of 1928–1941 was a new phase of anti-religious campaign in the Soviet Union following the anti-religious campaign of 1921–1928. The campaign began in 1929, with the drafting of new legislation that severely ...
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USSR anti-religious campaign (1958–1964) Nikita Khrushchev's anti-religious campaign was the last large-scale anti-religious campaign undertaken in the Soviet Union. It succeeded a comparatively tolerant period towards religion which had lasted from 1941 until the late 1950s. As a ...
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USSR anti-religious campaign (1970s–1990) Religion in the Soviet Union, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was dominated by the fact that it became the first state to have as one objective of its official ideology the elimination of existing religion, and the prevention of futur ...


References


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* Eastern Catholic monasteries in Ukraine Ukrainian Catholic monasteries Studite Brethren monasteries Monasteries in Lviv Oblast Lavras {{UkrainianGreekCatholic-stub