Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latins
Archidioecesis Leopolitana Latinorum

Statistics
Country:	Ukraine
Rite:	Latin
Area:	68,000 km²
Population:   Total:   Catholics:	4 500 000 150 000 (3.3%)
Cathedral:	Cathedral of Blessed Virgin Mary of the Assumption
Ordinaries
Bishop:	Mieczysław Mokrzycki
Auxiliary Bishop:	Leon Maly

The Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latins (Latin: Archidioecesis Leopolitana Latinorum) is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin rite of the Catholic Church in western Ukraine. Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki is the current archbishop of the archdiocese.

Contents 1 History 2 Geography 3 Ordinaries 3.1 List of recent archbishops 4 Statistics 5 Footnotes 6 See also 7 External links

[edit] History

The diocese was canonically erected on August 28, 1412 by Pope Gregory XII. Pope John Paul II visited the archdiocese as part of his papal visit to Ukraine in June 2001. This included a Papal Address to the young people in Lviv.

[edit] Geography

The archdiocese has six suffragan dioceses which are Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Kharkiv-Zaporizhia, Kyiv-Zhytomyr, Lutsk,Mukacheve and Odessa-Simferopol.

[edit] Ordinaries

[edit] List of recent archbishops

Also see List of Roman Catholic bishops of Lwów

Incumbent	Term Start	Term Finish	Notes
Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz	25 March 1815	30 September 1833	Appointed, Archbishop of Praha (Prague)
Franz Xavier Luschin	18 March 1834	9 January 1835	Appointed, Archbishop of Gorizia e Gradisca
St. Józef Bilczewski	17 December 1900	30 March 1923	Died
Boleslaw Twardowski	3 August 1923	22 November 1945	Died
Eugeniusz Baziak	22 November 1945	15 June 1962	Died
Marian Jaworski	16 January 1990	21 October 2008	Retired
Mieczysław Mokrzycki	21 October 2008

[edit] Statistics

As of 16 July 2007 there are 138 priests, 1 permanent deacon and 213 religious in the archdiocese.^[1]

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] See also

• Roman Catholicism in Ukraine

[edit] External links

• Website of the Archdiocese
• catholic-hierarchy.org
•  "Lemberg". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Lemberg. 

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