Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk

Ukrainian Greek Catholic archeparchy in Ukraine

Archeparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk

Archieparchia Stanislaopolitana

Архиєпархія з Івано-Франківська

Cathedral of the Resurrection

Coat of arms

Location
Country|  Ukraine
Statistics
Area| 6,700 km2 (2,600 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics| (as of 2009)
792,272
603,918 (76.2%)
Information
Denomination| Catholic Church
Sui iuris church| Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Rite| Byzantine Rite
Established| 26 March 1885
Cathedral| Cathedral of the Resurrection of Our Saviour in Ivano-Frankivsk
Current leadership
Pope| Francis
Major Archbishop| Sviatoslav Shevchuk
Metropolitan Archbishop| Volodymyr Viytyshyn
Suffragans| Eparchy of Kolomyia, Eparchy of Chernivtsi
Auxiliary Bishops| Mykola Semenyshyn
Map
Website
Website of the Archeparchy
Map of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the province of Lviv in 1939

The Archparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk (or Ivano-Frankivsk of the Ukrainians) is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or archeparchy of the Catholic Church in Ukraine. It was erected in 2011. It is the metropolitan of an ecclesiastical province located in the western part of Ukraine in the oblasts of Ivano-Frankivsk and Chernivtsi. It has two suffragan eparchies: Kolomyia and Chernivtsi. The incumbent ordinary of the archeparchy is Volodymyr Viytyshyn, who was confirmed by Pope Benedict XVI on 2 June 2005. It is assisted and protected by the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches in Rome. The cathedral church of the archeparchy is the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Our Saviour which is situated in the eponymous city of Ivano-Frankivsk.

## History

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* Established on March 26, 1885 as Eparchy of Stanislaviv/ Stanislaviv / Ivano-Frankivs’k / Stanislaopolitan(us) (Latin adjective), on territory split off from the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv, as suffragan see in the ecclesiastical province of Kyiv-Halych.
* November 9, 1962: Renamed as Eparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk.
* April 20, 1993: Lost territory to establish the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Kolomyia – Chernivtsi, now its suffragan.
* Elevated on December 13, 2011 as Metropolitan Archeparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk/ Stanislaviv / Ivano-Frankivs’k / Stanislaopolitan(us) (Latin).

## Ecclesiastical province

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The metropolis has two suffragan sees :

* Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Chernivtsi
* Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Kolomyia.

## Statistics

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As per 2014, it pastorally served 591,157 Catholics (75.8% of 780,117 total) on 6,700 km² in 390 parishes and 55 missions with 457 priests (423 diocesan, 34 religious), 173 lay religious (52 brothers, 121 sisters) and 90 seminarians.

## Episcopal Ordinaries and Auxiliary bishops

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Eparchs (Bishops) of Stanislaviv/Ivano-Frankivsk

* Yulian Pelesh (27 March 1885 – 22 Sep 1891)
* Julian Sas-Kuilovsky (22 Sep 1891 – 19 June 1899)
* Andrey Sheptytsky, O.S.B.M. (19 June 1899 – 17 Dec 1900)
* Blessed Hryhoriy Khomyshyn (6 May 1904 – 17 Jan 1947)
* auxiliary bishop Ivan Lyatyshevskyi (24 Nov 1929 – 27 Nov 1957)

In 1946 the Soviet Union prohibited the Greek Catholic Church; all of its properties were appropriated by the Russian Orthodox Church

* Blessed Ivan Slezyuk (April 1945 – 02 Dec 1973)
* Blessed Symeon Lukach (April 1945 – 22 August 1964)
* Auxiliary bishops:Stepan Vaprovych (April 1945 – 2 March 1964); *Hryhoriy Balahurak (April 1945 – 02 Oct 1965); *Yosafat Fedoryk (1964 – 28 Dec 1979); Sofron Dmyterko (30 Nov 1968 – 16 Jan 1991); Pavlo Vasylyk (1 May 1974 – 16 Jan 1991); Yakiv Tymchuk (1977 – 20 Dec 1988); Iryney Bilyk (15 August 1989 – 16 Jan 1991)

On 16 January 1991, the Holy See publicly confirmed all clandestine consecrations

* Sofron Dmyterko, O.S.B.M. (16 Jan 1991 – 07 Nov 1997)
* Auxiliary bishops: Pavlo Vasylyk; Iryney Bilyk; Sofron Mudry; Volodymyr Viytyshyn
* Sofron Mudry (7 November 1997 - 2 June 2005)
* Volodymyr Viytyshyn (2 June 2005 - 21 November 2011)

Metropolitan Archeparchs of Ivano-Frankivsk

* Volodymyr Viytyshyn (21 November 2011 – present)
* Auxiliary bishop: Yosafat Moschych

## Gallery of eparchies

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* Ivano-Frankivsk

* Kolomyia

* Chernivtsi

## See also

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* List of Catholic dioceses in Ukraine

## Sources and external links

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* Profile at GCatholic.org

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Hierarchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church by eparchy

Hierarchy by archeparchy and by suffragan eparchy

Major archeparchy:
Kyiv–Galicia|

| Archeparchy: Kyiv|

* No suffragan sees

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Archeparchy: Lviv|

* Stryi
* Sambir–Drohobych
* Sokal–Zhovkva

Archeparchy: Przemyśl–Warsaw|

* Olsztyn–Gdańsk
* Wrocław–Koszalin

Archeparchy: Winnipeg|

* Edmonton
* New Westminster
* Saskatoon
* Toronto and Eastern Canada

Archeparchy: Philadelphia|

* Parma
* Chicago
* Stamford

Archeparchy: Ivano-Frankivsk|

* Kolomyia
* Chernivtsi

Archeparchy: Ternopil–Zboriv|

* Buchach
* Kamyanets-Podilskyi

Archeparchy: São João Batista em Curitiba|

* Imaculada Conceição in Prudentópolis

Archiepiscopal exarchates within Ukraine|

* Donetsk
* Kharkiv
* Krym
* Odesa
* Lutsk

Eparchies subject to
the Major Archbishop
that are not in the metropolitan
province of Kyiv–Galicia|

* Eparchy of Santa María del Patrocinio in Buenos Aires
* Eparchy of SS Peter and Paul of Melbourne
* Eparchy of the Holy Family of London
* Eparchy of Saint Vladimir the Great of Paris

Exempt Apostolic exarchates|

* Germany and Scandinavia
* Italy

* Catholicism portal
* Ukraine portal

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Hierarchy including Ecclesiastical circumscriptions

Major archeparchy|

* Kyiv–Galicia: Sviatoslav Shevchuk

Archeparchies|

* Kyiv: Sviatoslav Shevchuk
* Lviv: Ihor Vozniak
* Przemyśl–Warsaw: Eugeniusz Popowicz
* Winnipeg: Lawrence Huculak
* Philadelphia: Borys Gudziak
* Ivano-Frankivsk: Volodymyr Viytyshyn
* Ternopil–Zboriv: Vasyl Semeniuk
* São João Batista em Curitiba: Valdomiro Koubetch

Eparchies|

| Ukraine|

* Buchach: Dmytro Hryhorak
* Chernivtsi: Yosafat Moschych
* Kamyanets–Podilskyi: Ivan Kulyk
* Kolomyia: Vasyl Ivasyuk
* Sambir–Drohobych: Yaroslav Pryriz
* Sokal–Zhovkva: Mykhaylo Koltun
* Stryi: Taras Senkiv

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Poland|

* Olsztyn–Gdańsk: Arkadiusz Trochanowski
* Wrocław–Koszalin: Włodzimierz Juszczak

Canada|

* Edmonton: David Motiuk
* Saskatoon: Michael Smolinski
* New Westminster: Michael Kwiatkowski
* Toronto and Eastern Canada: Bryan Bayda

United States|

* Saint Nicholas of Chicago: Venedykt Aleksiychuk
* Saint Josaphat in Parma: Bohdan Danylo
* Stamford: Paul Chomnycky

Brazil|

* Imaculada Conceição in Prudentópolis: Meron Mazur

Argentina|

* Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires: Daniel Kozelinski Netto

Australia and New Zealand|

* Saints Peter and Paul of Australia: Mykola Bychok

United Kingdom|

* Holy Family of London: Kenneth Nowakowski

France, Benelux and Switzerland|

* Saint Vladimir the Great of Paris: Hlib Lonchyna (Apostolic Administrator)

Apostolic exarchates|

| Germany and Scandinavia|

* Bohdan Dzyurakh

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Italy and
San Marino|

* Dionisio Lachovicz

Archiepiscopal exarchates|

* Donetsk: Stepan Meniok
* Kharkiv: Vasyl Tuchapets
* Krym: Mykhaylo Bubniy (Archiepiscopal Administrator)
* Odesa: Mykhaylo Bubniy
* Lutsk: Yosafat Hovera

Apostolic visitors|

* Chile: Daniel Kozelinski Netto
* Ireland: Kenneth Nowakowski
* Northern Ireland: Kenneth Nowakowski
* Paraguay: Daniel Kozelinski Netto
* Uruguay: Daniel Kozelinski Netto
* Venezuela: Daniel Kozelinski Netto

Curial and
auxiliary bishops|

* Volodymyr Firman (Ternopil–Zboriv)
* Petro Holiney (Kolomyia)
* Volodymyr Hrutsa (Lviv)
* Andriy Khimyak (Kyiv)
* Hryhoriy Komar (Sambir–Drohobych)
* Petro Loza (Sokal–Zhovkva)
* Bohdan Manyshyn (Stryi)
* Teodor Martynyuk (Ternopil–Zboriv)
* Yosyf Milyan (Kyiv)
* Andriy Rabiy (Winnipeg)
* Maksym Ryabukha (Donetsk)
* Mykola Semenyshyn (Ivano-Frankivsk)
* Stepan Sus (Curial Bishop)

Bishops
emeritus|

* Jan Martyniak (Metropolitan) (Przemyśl – Warsaw)
* Stefan Soroka (Metropolitan) (Philadelphia)
* Iryney Bilyk (Buchach)
* Stephen Chmilar (Toronto)
* Petro Kryk (Germany and Scandinavia)
* Basil Losten (Stamford)
* Wasyl Medwit (Donetsk)
* Peter Stasiuk (Saints Peter and Paul of Australia)
* Michael Wiwchar (Saskatoon)

Defunct
circumscriptions|

| Poland|

* Apostolic Exarchate of Łemkowszczyzna
* Eparchy of Kholm and Belz
* Conversion of Chełm Eparchy

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Ukraine|

* Eparchy of Zboriv

Ruthenian Uniate Church|

* Eparchy of Suprasl
* Archeparchy of Polotsk
* Eparchy of Turov and Pinsk
* Eparchy of Volodymyr and Brest
* Eparchy of Lutsk and Ostroh
* Archeparchy of Smolensk

Seminaries|

* Kyiv
* Lviv
* Drohobych
* Ivano-Frankivsk
* Ternopil
* Rome
* Stamford
* Washington D.C.
* Edmonton
* Curitiba

* Catholicism portal
* Ukraine portal

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