Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv


The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv is a Metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in western Ukraine.
Its Cathedral archiepiscopal see is a Minor Basilica and World Heritage Site: Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Lviv, Lviv Oblast
The diocese has a second Minor Basilica: Basilica of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, in Chernivtsi, Chernivtsi Oblast.
Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki is the current metropolitan archbishop of the archdiocese.

History

The diocese was canonically erected in 1358 as Diocese of Lviv / Lwow / Leopoli / Leopolitan Latinorum

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 138,500 Roman Catholics on 68,000 km² in 278 parishes with 196 priests, 215 lay religious and 32 seminarians.
As of 16 July 2007 there were 138 priests, 1 permanent deacon and 213 religious in the archdiocese.

Ecclesiastical province

The Metropolitan of the Archdiocese has six Latin suffragan sees :
;Suffragan Bishops of Lviv
;Metropolitan Archbishops of Lviv
•Auxiliary Bishop: Stanislaw Padewski, O.F.M. Cap.
•Auxiliary Bishop: Markijan Trofimiak
•Auxiliary Bishop: Rafal Kiernicki, O.F.M. Conv.
•Auxiliary Bishop: Eugeniusz Baziak
•Auxiliary Bishop: Francis Lisowski
•Auxiliary Bishop: Bolesław Twardowski
•Auxiliary Bishop: Wladyslaw Bandurski
•Auxiliary Bishop: Joseph Weber, C.R.
•Auxiliary Bishop: Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko
•Auxiliary Bishop: Seweryn Morawski
•Auxiliary Bishop: Valery Henryk Kamionko
•Auxiliary Bishop: Kajetan Ignacy Kicki
•Auxiliary Bishop: Ferdynand Onufry Kicki
•Auxiliary Bishop: Kryspin Cieszkowski
•Auxiliary Bishop: Samuel Głowiński
•Auxiliary Bishop: Hieronim Maciej Jełowicki
•Auxiliary Bishop: Stefan Bogusław Rupniewski
•Auxiliary Bishop: John Skarbek

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