The Archparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk (or Ivano-Frankivsk of the Ukrainians) is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or archeparchy of the Catholic Church in Ukraine. It was erected in 2011. It is the metropolitan of an ecclesiastical province located in the western part of Ukraine in the oblasts of Ivano-Frankivsk and Chernivtsi. It has two suffragan eparchies: Kolomyia and Chernivtsi. The incumbent ordinary of the archeparchy is Volodymyr Viytyshyn, who was confirmed by Pope Benedict XVI on 2 June 2005. It is assisted and protected by the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches in Rome. The cathedral church of the archeparchy is the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Our Saviour which is situated in the eponymous city of Ivano-Frankivsk.

History

Ecclesiastical province

The metropolis has two suffragan sees :

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 591,157 Catholics (75.8% of 780,117 total) on 6,700 km² in 390 parishes and 55 missions with 457 priests (423 diocesan, 34 religious), 173 lay religious (52 brothers, 121 sisters) and 90 seminarians.

Episcopal Ordinaries and Auxiliary bishops

On 16 January 1991, the Holy See publicly confirmed all clandestine consecrations

Gallery of eparchies

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