On 15 January 1991 Pope John Paul II reactivated, being currently 600 years old, the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lvov of the Latin Rite. Marian Jaworski was appointed its first Archbishop. The A rchdiocese was erected in 1375 with its seat in Halych and it was moved to Lvov in 1412 in difficult conditions in the Latin and Byzantine borderland. The aim of this article is to present the rich tradition of the Roman Catholic Church and her creative presence for 600 hundred years on the territory of the present Western Ukraine. The main threads of this article are as follows: the nationality of the “Ruthenian” land in the Middle Ages, Latin missionary bishops in Ruthenia, the erection of a Metropolis of Halych of the Latin Rite, the transfer of the seat of the Metropolis to Lvov in 1412 and its further development, jurisdiction of Bishops of Lebus in Ruthenia and the participation of the Franciscans and Dominicans in the erection of the diocese and in the Christianization
of Ruthenia.
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Vol. 45 No. 2 (2012)
Published: 2012-12-31
English
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