Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv

Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latins
*Archidioecesis Leopolitanus 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:	Marian Cardinal Jaworski
Coadjutor:	Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki
Auxiliary Bishop:	Leon Maly and Marian Buczek

The Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latins (Latin: Archidioecesis Leopolitanus Latinorum) is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin rite of the Catholic Church in western Ukraine. Marian Cardinal Jaworski is the current archbishop of the archdiocese. He was appointed to the See of Lviv of the Latins on January 16, 1991.^[1]

[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.

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

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