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Church Attractions In Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

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Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast is an oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. As is the case with most other oblasts of Ukraine this region has the same name as its administrative center – which was renamed by the Soviet Ukrainian authorities after the Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko on November 9, 1962. Population: 1,382,352 . Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast is also known to Ukrainians by a deep-rooted alternative name: Prykarpattia . Prykarpattia, together with Lviv and Ternopil regions, was the main body of the historic region of eastern Halychyna; which in the 13th century was a part of the Kingdom of Rus and the Halych-Vo...
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Church Attractions In Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

  • 5. The Holy Resurrection Cathedral Ivano Frankivsk
    The Archparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk is an Archeparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church sui iuris in Ukraine. It depends on the Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches. Its archiepiscopal cathedral see is the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Our Saviour, in Ivano-Frankivsk , in the province Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, which also has a secularized World Heritage Site: Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit, in Rohatyn . Volodymyr Viytyshyn was confirmed as eparch by Pope Benedict XVI on 2 June, 2005.
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  • 6. Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Ivano Frankivsk
    List of cathedrals in Ukraine and cathedral temples that includes temples that used to have cathedra. Please, note that all of the Russian Orthodox Church temples in Ukraine are organized as the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Since 1992 there has been a movement to organize a separate Ukrainian Orthodox Church led by self organized Kiev Patriarch. For disambiguation purposes the Russian Orthodox Church is identified as the Ukrainian Orthodox Church , and other the Ukrainian Orthodox Church . The Russian Orthodox Church continues to possess the highest number of dioceses and major temples in Ukraine. Many of the dioceses were created after the fall of the Soviet Union in 2000s and later.
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  • 7. St. George Wooden Church Drohobych
    St. George's Church in Drohobych is one of the oldest and best preserved timber churches of Galicia. The church, dating from ca. 1500, consists of three parts. The central block is square in plan and comprises the nave. Two other blocks contain the double apse and the narthex. Between 1678 and 1711, the church was renovated: the interior was frescoed, the octagonal structures built up, and a new belfry appeared. It is one of the 16 churches that comprise a World Heritage Site named the Wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine.
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