Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk

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Archeparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk

Archieparchia Stanislaopolitana

Архиєпархія з Івано-Франківська
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Cathedral of the Resurrection
Coat of arms of Ivano-Frankivsk (UGCC).svg
Coat of arms
Location
CountryFlag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
Statistics
Area6,700 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
Established26 March 1885
CathedralCathedral 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
Map of Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk.svg
Website
Website of the Archeparchy
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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.

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History

Ecclesiastical province

The metropolis has two suffragan sees :

Statistics

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

Eparchs (Bishops) of Stanislaviv/Ivano-Frankivsk
In 1946 the Soviet Union prohibited the Greek Catholic Church; all of its properties were appropriated by the Russian Orthodox Church

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

Metropolitan Archeparchs of Ivano-Frankivsk

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