Name: St. George's Cathedral (St. Yur Cathedral), Lviv
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March 18, 2022

Archcathedral cathedral of St. Jura in Lviv (Ukrainian: Архикатедральний собор Святого Юра у Львові) - the cathedral church of the Lviv Archdiocese of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church - the Halych metropolis. It is located at St. Jura (площа святого Юра).

Built in 1744–1772 in the Rococo style, funded by the Greek Catholic bishop of the Lviv diocese, Atanazy Szeptycki. The three-nave temple combines in a very original way rococo art with the plan of the eastern church. It is, according to some opinions, the most perfect work of European late baroque.

Until 1946 it was the cathedral council of the Lviv Archdiocese of the Catholic Church of the Greek Catholic rite. Held by the Soviet authorities in Lviv on March 8-10, 1946, not recognized by the Holy See, the council, attended by inferior clergy and NKVD agents, abolished the union with Rome and formally incorporated the Byzantine-Ukrainian Catholic Church into the Russian Orthodox Church. After the official liquidation of the Greek Catholic Church in the USSR under the supervision of the secret Soviet political police and the arrest of the entire episcopate, the Cathedral of Saint George was handed over to the Russian Orthodox Church in March 1946 and played the role of the Orthodox cathedral of the Lviv Eparchy of the Moscow Patriarchate. At that time, some Greek Catholic and Ukrainian elements were removed from the interior, e.g. the epitaph of Markian Shashkewycz and the bishop's throne (replaced with a makeshift side altar).

In August 1990, the temple returned to the possession of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, officially reactivated at that time in the Ukrainian SSR. In 1991, Pope John Paul II appointed Cardinal Myrosław Lubacziwski (from 1984 Greek Catholic Archbishop of Lviv, residing in exile), the successor of Josyf Slip, to the Lviv Byzantine-Ukrainian rite. Myrosław Lubacziwski returned to Lviv on March 31, 1991, taking up his duties at the Cathedral.

The entire complex, surrounded by a wall, includes, in addition to the cathedral, also a bell tower, chapter buildings and the metropolitan palace. The whole is an extremely picturesque architectural complex, visible from a distance.

In 1998, the cathedral of St. Jura, together with the Old Town, the High Castle and Podzamcze have been included on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archikatedralny_sob%C3%B3r_%C5%9Bw._Jura_we_Lwowie

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April 16, 2019

worth seeing St. George's Cathedral and monument of Metropolitan Andriy Sheptytskyy

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St. George's Cathedral (St. Yur Cathedral), Lviv

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