Ecclesiastical province Archeparchy of Lviv Area 6,900 km² | Rite Byzantine Major archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk | |
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Territory 6 Raions of Lviv Oblast Headquarters Drohobych, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine Population
- Total
- Catholics (as of 2014)
598,180
396,721 (66.3%) Sui iuris church Ukrainian Greek Catholic | ||
The Eparchy of Sambir – Drohobych is an eparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, in the ecclesiastical province of Kyiv-Halych.
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The first eparch was Yulian Voronovskyi, M.S.U., who was appointed to this position by Pope John Paul II on 30 March 1994, having previously been as Archiepiscopal Administrator of the eparchy from its inception in 1993.
Eparch Yaroslav Pryriz C.S.S.R., who had been Coadjutor Bishop of the Eparchy, became Eparch when Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych (Kiev), Ukraine, with the consent of the Permanent Synod meeting in Curitiba, Brazil, on Saturday, 10 September 2011, and having informed the Apostolic See, accepted the resignation of Eparch Voronovskyi.
History
Eparchial and auxiliary bishops
The following is a list of the bishops of Sambir – Drohobych and their terms of service: