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Eparchy of Sambir-Drohobych

Samborien(sis)-­Drohobychien(sis)

Ukrainian Greek Catholic eparchy covering six raions of Lviv Oblast, erected 20 April 1993 from the Archeparchy of Lviv, within whose metropolitan province it sits. The seat is the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Drohobych.

The see

Rank
Suffragan eparchy
Tradition
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Erected
20 April 1993
Latin
Samborien(sis)-­Drohobychien(sis)
Annuario code
001002861

The see in figures

Catholics
396,721
Population
598,180
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
66.3%
Priests
330
Catholics per priest
1,202
Extent
6,900 km²
Catholics per km²
57

Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.

The bishop

Eparch
Yaroslav Pryriz, C.Ss.R.

A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.

The cathedral

Holy Trinity Cathedral, Drohobych stands in Sambir, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

The province of Lviv (UGCC)

A suffragan of Archeparchy of Lviv.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Within the ecclesiastical province of Kyiv-Halych, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church maintains the Eparchy of Sambir-Drohobych. Yulian Voronovskyi, M.S.U., became its first eparch by appointment of Pope John Paul II on 30 March 1994, after serving as Archiepiscopal Administrator from the eparchy's founding in 1993.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.