page_title: Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
section_title: Current administrative division
hierarchical_section_title: Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church / Administration / Current administrative division
caption_attribution_description: Українська: Україна Вінниця, Українська греко-католицька церква
context_page_description: The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is a Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Pope and the worldwide Catholic Church. It is the second-largest particular church in the Catholic Church. It is part of the Major Archiepiscopal Churches of the Catholic Church that are not distinguished with a patriarchal title.
  The church is one of the successor churches to the acceptance of Christianity by Grand Prince Vladimir the Great of Kiev, in 988. It appeared in 1596 with the signing of the Union of Brest between the Ruthenian Orthodox Church led by Michael Rohoza and the Holy See. Following the partitions of Poland, in 1808 the eparchies of the original Ruthenian Uniate Church were split three ways between the Austrian Empire, Prussia, and the Russian Empire. Those three eparchies under Austrian jurisdiction were reorganized as the Greek Catholic Church soon after liquidation of all five eparchies that ended up in Russia. Established in 1807 the Greek Catholic Church in Austria became the only survivor of the original Uniate church of the Brest Union.
  In 1963 the church was recognized as Ukrainian through the efforts of Yosyf Slipyi.
context_section_description: Note: The Eparchy of Mukachevo belongs to the Ruthenian Catholic Church rather than the Ukrainian Greek church.
  The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church moved its administrative center from Western Ukrainian Lviv to a new cathedral in Kiev on 21 August 2005. The title of the head of the UGCC was changed from The Major Archbishop of Lviv to The Major Archbishop of Kyiv and Halych.
  The Patriarchal Curia of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church is an organ of Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the UGCC, Major Archbishop of Kyiv and Halych, which coordinates and promotes the common activity of the UGCC in Ukraine to make influence on society in different spheres: education, policy, culture, etc. The Curia develops action of the Church's structures, enables relations and cooperation with other Churches and major public institutions in religious and social areas for implementation of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church through everyday life.
  In 2011 the church introduced territorial subdivisions in Ukraine, metropolia. A metropolitan bishop, an archbishop of main archeparchy, may gather own metropolitan synod, decisions of which shall be approved by the Major Archbishop.
  The current eparchies and other territorial jurisdictions of the church are:
  Major Archbishop Svyatoslav Shevchuk
  Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitan of Kiev – Galicia (2005)
  Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Kyiv (Latin: Archidioecesis Kioviensis, previously as uniate diocese, 1996)
  Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk (2002)
  Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Odessa (2003)
  Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Lutsk (previously as uniate diocese, 2008)
  Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Crimea (2014 as administration in Odessa)
  Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Kharkiv (2014)
  Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitan of Lviv (1808 – 2005, 2011)
  Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv (Latin: Archidioecesis Leopolitana Ucrainorum, 1539 – 1946, 1989)
  Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Sambir–Drohobych (1993)
  Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Zboriv (1993 – 2000)
  Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stryi (2000)
  Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Sokal–Zhovkva (2000)
  Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitan of Ternopil – Zboriv (2011)
  Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Ternopil–Zboriv (1993)
  Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Buchach (2000)
  Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Kamyanets-Podilskyi (previously as united diocese, 2015)
  Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitan of Ivano-Frankivsk (2011)
  Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk (1885 – 1946, 1989)
  Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Kolomyia (1993)
  Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Chernivtsi (2017)
  Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitan of Przemyśl–Warsaw (Poland, 1996)
  Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Przemyśl–Warsaw (1087 – 1946, 1996)
  Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Wrocław-Gdańsk (1996)
  Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitan of Winnipeg (Canada, 1956)
  Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Winnipeg (1912)
  Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Edmonton (1948)
  Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Toronto and Eastern Canada (1948)
  Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon (1951)
  Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of New Westminster (1974)
  Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitan of Philadelphia (United States, 1958)
  Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia (1913)
  Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford (1956)
  Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Chicago (1961)
  Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Parma (1983)
  Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitan of Curitiba (Brazil, 2014)
  Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Curitiba (1962)
  Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Prudentópolis (2014)
  Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Buenos Aires (Argentina, 1968)
  Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Melbourne (Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, 1958)
  Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of the Holy Family of London (England, Scotland and Wales, 1957)
  Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Wladimir-Le-Grand de Paris (France, Switzerland and Benelux, 1960)
  Ukrainian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Germany and Scandinavia* (1959)
  Ukrainian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Italy* (2019)
  * Directly subject to the Holy See
  As of
caption: Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Vinnytsia
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