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Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Kamyanets Podilskyi

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Headquarters
  
Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine

Established
  
December 11, 2015

Major archbishop
  
Sviatoslav Shevchuk

Rite
  
Byzantine

Area
  
20,645 km²

Territory
  
Khmelnytskyi Oblast

Ecclesiastical province
  
Archeparchy of Ternopil–Zboriv

Population- Total- Catholics
  
(as of 2006)1,367,892?

Sui iuris church
  
Ukrainian Greek Catholic

The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Kamyanets-Podilskyi is an eparchy (Eastern Catholic diocese) of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church sui iuris (Byzantine Rite in Ukrainian language) in its homeland Ukraine.

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The eparchy is suffragan of the Metropolitan Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Ternopil–Zboriv.

History

  • Established as Eparchy of Kamyanets
  • United on 6 December 2004 with its Metropolitan, as title of the Major Archdiocese of Kyiv–Halyč.
  • Restored on December 11, 2015 as Eparchy of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, on territory returned from the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Ternopil–Zboriv, as its suffragan.

    • Episcopal Ordinaries

    (all Ukrainian Rite)

    Suffragan Eparchs (Bishops) of Kamianets
  • (unavailable)
    • Suffragan Eparchs (Bishops) of Kamianets-Podilskyi
  • Archiepiscopal Administrator (11 December 2015 - ...) Vasyl Semeniuk, as first Metropolitan of Ternopil – Zboriv (2011.12.22 – ...), previously Titular Bishop of Castra severiana (2004.02.10 – 2006.10.19) & Auxiliary Eparch of Ternopil–Zboriv of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (2004.02.10 – 2006.10.19), succeeded as Eparch (Bishop) of Ternopil–Zboriv of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (2006.10.19 – 2011.12.22)

    • References

    Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Kamyanets-Podilskyi Wikipedia
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