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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv

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Ecclesiastical province
  
Pope
  
Area
  
68,000 km²

Archbishop
  
Emeritus bishop
  
Marian Jaworski

Rite
  
Auxiliary Bishops
  
Leon Maly

Country
  
Auxiliary bishop
  
Leon Mały

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Population- Total- Catholics
  
(as of 2013)4,499,000138,000 (3.1%)

Cathedral
  
Митрополича базиліка-санктуарій Успіння Пресвятої Діви Марії(Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary)

The Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latins (Latin: Archidioecesis Leopolitana Latinorum) is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in western Ukraine. Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki is the current metropolitan archbishop of the archdiocese.

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History

The diocese was canonically erected on August 28, 1412 by Pope Gregory XII.

Pope John Paul II visited the archdiocese as part of his papal visit to Ukraine in June 2001. This included a Papal Address to the young people in Lviv.

Geography

The archdiocese has six suffragan dioceses which are Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Kharkiv-Zaporizhia, Kyiv-Zhytomyr, Lutsk, Mukacheve and Odessa-Simferopol.

List of recent archbishops

Also see List of Roman Catholic bishops of Lwów

Statistics

As of 16 July 2007 there are 138 priests, 1 permanent deacon and 213 religious in the archdiocese.

References

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv Wikipedia


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