Archeparchy of Przemyśl–Warsaw Archidioecesis Premisliensis–Varsaviensis ritus byzantini ucraini |
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Seat of the Archeparchy: The Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the St. John the Baptist, Przemyśl, Poland
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Territory | Poland |
Ecclesiastical province | Archeparchy of Przemyśl–Warsaw |
Headquarters | Przemyśl, Poland |
Population - Catholics |
32,000 |
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Sui iuris church | Ukrainian Greek Catholic |
Rite | Byzantine Rite |
Established | May 24, 1996 |
Cathedral | Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Przemyśl |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Major Archbishop | Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Eugeniusz Popowicz, Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Przemyśl–Warsaw |
The Ukrainian (Greek) Catholic Archeparchy of Przemyśl–Warsaw (Latin: Archidioecesis Premisliensis–Varsaviensis ritus byzantini ucraini, Ukrainian: Перемишльсько-Варшавська архієпархія УГКЦ) is an archeparchy (Eastern Catholic archbishopric) of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church sui iuris (Byzantine Rite in Ukrainian language) in Poland, depending on the Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches.
Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is Archikatedra św. Jana Chrzciciela, Przemyśl, Podkarpackie, dedicated to , in the city of Przemyśl. Although national capital Warsaw was added to its title, there is no co-cathedral.
Both Former Cathedrals (now Orthodox churches) aer elsewhere in Podkarpackie :
The Metropolitan has a single Suffragan Diocese :
As per 2014, it pastorally served 30,000 Eastern Catholics in 69 parishes and 2 missions with 44 priests (33 diocesan, 11 religious), 4 deacons, 96 lay religious (14 brothers, 82 sisters), 7 seminarians.
In 1087 the Eparchy of Przemyśl was established in the Principality of Peremyshl as Eastern Orthodox eparchy.
The town initially did not adhere to the Union of Brest thus having for a short period two bishops. In 1679, Innokentiy Vynnyckyj became the Orthodox bishop and on 23 June 1691 Innokentiy publicly accepted the Union for himself and for his eparchy, and he remained the only bishop of the town after that the Greek Catholic bishop Ivan Malaxovskyj on the same year moved to Chełm. Innokentiy Vynnyckyj was succeeded in 1700 by his brother by Yurij Vynnyckyj who later became Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia.