Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv


The Archdiocese of Lviv is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in western Ukraine.
Its Cathedral archiepiscopal see is a Minor Basilica and World Heritage Site: Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Lviv, Lviv Oblast. The diocese has a second Minor Basilica: Basilica of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, in Chernivtsi, Chernivtsi Oblast.
Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki is the current metropolitan archbishop of the archdiocese. In Kyiv exists Apostolic Nunciature to Ukraine since 1992.
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History

The diocese was canonically erected in 1358 as Diocese of Lviv / Lwow / Leopoli / Leopolitan Latinorum

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 138,500 Roman Catholics on 68,000 km² in 278 parishes with 196 priests, 215 lay religious and 32 seminarians.
As of 16 July 2007 there were 138 priests, 1 permanent deacon and 213 religious in the archdiocese.
As per 2014: 12 deaneries, the area of 68,000 km², 286 parishes.

Ecclesiastical province

The archdiocese is a metropolitan see with six Latin suffragan sees in its ecclesiastical province:

Structure

And also Seminary in Briukhovychi.

Episcopal ordinaries

;Suffragan Bishops of Lviv
;Metropolitan Archbishops of Lviv

Auxiliaries