List of Major Archbishops of Kiev–Galicia

For Roman Catholic bishops, see Bishops of Kiev (disambiguation).

This is a list of Major Archbishops of Kiev-Galicia from the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

Following the Union of Brest the Metropolia of Kiev-Halych and all Rus broke relations with the Patriarch of Constantinople and place themselves in communion with the Patriarch of the West, thus establishing what later was known as "Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church". At first widely successful, within several decades it had lost much of its initial support, mainly due to Imperial Russian persecution, though in Galicia the church fared well and remains strong to this day.

Primates from 1596 to 1807

Metropolitans of Kiev:^[1]

• Mykhajlo Rohoza (1596—1599)
• Ipatii Potii (1600—1613)
• Josyf Veliamyn Rutsky (1613—1637)
• Rafajil Korsak (1637—1640)
• Antin Sielava (1641—1655)
• Havryil Kolenda (1666—1674)
• Kyprian Zochovskyj (1674—1693)
• Lev Szlubic-Zalenskyj (1694—1708)
• Yurij Vynnyckyj (1708—1713)
• Lev Luka Kiszka (1714—1729)
• Atanasy Sheptycky (1729—1746)
• Florian Hrebnicky (1748—1762)
• Feliks Filipp Volodkovich (1762—1778)
• Ludovik Lev Sheptytsky (1778—1779)
• Yason Smogorzhevsky (1780—1786)
• Teodor Rostotsky (1787—1805)

Primates from 1807 to 2005

In 1807 the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was split in order to separate the territories under the Russian Empire (Metropolia of Kiev) from the ones under the Habsburg Monarchy, thus elevating the Eparchy of Lviv to the rank of Metropolis and granting it the same rights of the Metropolis of Kiev.

Metropolitans of Kiev from 1807 to 1838:^[1]

• Irakly Lisovsky (1808—1809)
• Hryhory Kokhanovich (1809—1814)
• Yosafat Bulhak (1818—1838)

Following the Synod of Polatsk (1838) the Greek Catholic church was forcedly abolished on the territory of the Russian Empire, and its property and clergy transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church.

Metropolitans of Lviv from 1807 to 2005:

• Antin Angelovych (1808—1814)
• Mykhajlo Levitsky (1816—1858)
• Hryhory Yakhymovych (1859—1866)
• Spyrydon Lytvynovych (1866—1869)
• Joseph Sembratovych (1870—1882)
• Sylvester Sembratovych (1882—1898)
• Julian Sas-Kuilovsky (1899-1900)
• Andrey Sheptytsky (1900—1944)
• Josyf Slipyj (1944–1984).

In 1969 the Metropolian of Lviv was elevated to the rank of Major archbishop.

• Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky (1984–2000)
• Lubomyr Husar (2000–2005)

Primates from 2005

In 2005 the two separated Metropolias of Kiev and Lviv have been re-united as before 1807.

Major Archbishop of Kiev–Galicia:

• Lubomyr Husar (2005—2011)
• Sviatoslav Shevchuk (2011—incumbent)

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Pelesz, Julian (1881). Geschichte der Union der ruthenischen Kirche mit Rom. Woerl. pp. 1083–84. http://www.google.com/books?id=29UCAAAAQAAJ. 

External links

• Religious Leaders
• Major Archdiocese of Kyiv – Halyč