Pidhirtsi Monastery
The Pidhirtsi Annunciation Monastery is a male monastery of the Order of St. Basil the Great, located near the village of Pidhirtsi in the Zolochiv Raion of the Lviv Oblast, on the site of the historic Plisnesk. It was originally Orthodox, but later became part of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
History
According to church legend, the monastery was founded in 1180 by Princess Olena Vsevolodivna, although documentary evidence of its existence only appears from the 17th century. The existence of the monastery in ancient Kievan Rus' times is confirmed by archaeological excavations, which revealed the remains of four temple buildings dating from different periods:- In the Olenyn Park tract
- In the Seredhoroddia tract
- On the territory of the modern monastery cemetery
- Opposite the modern monastery bell tower
In 1694, a miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary was brought to the monastery from the village of Holubytsia, and it was crowned in 1754. In 1700, the monastery joined the Union together with the entire Lviv diocese, and after 1739, it joined the Ruthenian Congregation of the Basilian Order.
Important historical documents have been preserved: the monastery chronicle and the monastery memorial book, to which the name of Taras Shevchenko was added in 1861.
In 1946, the monastery was closed by the Soviet authorities. Its buildings were used as a tuberculosis sanatorium. Church services continued in the temple until 1960. The monastery was revived in 1990–1991.
Architecture
At the beginning of the 18th century, there were several wooden churches on the monastery grounds, as well as, presumably, the stone Church of the Transfiguration, which was dismantled in 1706.After the fire of 1726, the stone church of St. Onuphrius was built between 1726 and 1750, which has survived to this day. This building is an example of Baroque basilica architecture, with three naves and one dome. The iconostasis, designed by architect
Paweł Giżycki in 1754, is of particular artistic value. Adjacent to the church on the northwest side is a house of cells, built in 1771–1786 by architect Wenzlawski.
Hegumens
Dominican Sadok Barącz, in his publication "Monaster OO. Bazylianów w Podhorcach", provides a list of hegumens of the Pidhirtsi Monastery up to 1875.- Illia Hostyslavskyi
- Yiov
- Yoil Bachynskyi
- Vartolomei Vyshotravka
- Hedeon Hoshovskyi
- Atanasii Bereza
- Sozont Lomikovskyi
- Isaia Buzkyi
- Sozont Lomykovskyi
- Klymentii Slovitskyi
- Anastasii Zhlobinskyi
- Sofronii Dobryanskyi
- Makarii Neronovych
- Yeronim Firlikovskyi
- Samuil Yurkevych
- Atanasii Charkovskyi
- Yeronim Oziemkevych
- Vihilii Shadurkyi
- Salyustii Koblianskyi
- Donat Yevlashevych
- Anatolii Vodzynskyi
- Vinkentii Zahorovskyi
- Anatolii Vodzynskyi
- Bonifatii Khomykovskyi
- Alimpii Anhelovych
- Yosafat Zypovskyi
- Kasiian Didytskyi
- Apolinarii Zabaty
- Himnazii Dashkevych
- Markiian Tarnavskyi
- Himnazii Dashkevych
- Benedykt Olshanskyi
- Lukiian Petrushevskyi
- Nykanor Kraievskyi
- Klymentii Sarnytskyi
- Yuliian Telishevskyi
- Matei Novodvorskyi
- Marko Lonkevych
- Leontii Osmiliovskyi
- Antonii Zahorovych
- Yosafat Frankovskyi
- Amvrosii Tarchanyn
- Modest Lobodych
- Antonii Kuchynskyi
- Lonhyn Karpovych
- Hryhorii Zalutskyi
- Sylvestr Kizyma
- Ambrozii Mushkevych
- Hryhorii Zalutskyi
- Vyniamyn Mutsykovskyi
- Marian Povkh
- Yuliian Datsii
- Yakiv Vatsura
- Dorotei Syroid
- Veniamyn Rozhin
- Yakiv Vatsura
- Irynei Hotra-Doroshenko
- Martyniian Lutsiv
- Pavlo Yakhymets
- Damian Kastran
- Volodymyr Virsta
- Teodor Pyliavskyi
- Hryhorii Bardak
- Stepan Romanyk
- Roman Shelepko
- Nazarii Lekh
- Yuliian Khomechko