Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ternopil–Zboriv, Ukraine (Ukrainian Rite)

Continent: East Europe

Rite: Ukrainian (Byzantine)

Type: Metropolitan Archdiocese Metr. Archdiocese

Name: Ternopil–Zboriv / Ternopolien(sis)–Zboroven(sis) (Latin)

Suffragan Sees: Bučač, Kamyanets-Podilsky

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Mother of God, Ternopil (Тернопіль), Ternopil Oblast
Co-Cathedral: Co-Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Lord, Zboriv (Зборів), Ternopil Oblast
Minor Basilica: Basilica of the Mother of God, Zarvanytsia (Зарваниця), Ternopil Oblast

Ivano-Frankivsk (↙), Stryj (←), Lviv (↖), Sokal–Zhovkva (↖), Lutsk (↑), Kamyanets-Podilsky (→), Bučač (↓)

Present Prelates

Metropolitan Archbishop (2011.12.22 – ...):	Archbishop Vasyl Semeniuk (73)
Auxiliary Bishop (2015.03.12 – ...):	Bishop Teodor Martynyuk (Taras), M.S.U. (49) Titular Bishop of Mopta

Ordinaries

Metropolitan Archbishops of Ternopil–Zboriv (Ukrainian Rite)

Archbishop Vasyl Semeniuk (73)
(2011.12.22 – ...)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Ternopil–Zboriv of the Ukrainians (Ukraine)

Born:	1949.08.02 (Dora, Ukraine)
Ordained Priest:	1974.12.22
Consecrated Bishop:	2004.04.03

Titular Bishop of Castra severiana (2004.02.10 – 2006.10.19)

Auxiliary Bishop of Ternopil–Zboriv of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (2004.02.10 – 2006.10.19)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Ternopil–Zboriv of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (2006.10.19 – 2011.12.22)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Ternopil–Zboriv of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (2011.12.22 – ...)

Patriarchal Administrator of Kamyanets-Podilsky of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (2015.12.11 – 2019.09.10)

Archbishop Vasyl Semeniuk (73)
(2006.10.19 – 2011.12.22)

(see above)

Bishops of Ternopil–Zboriv (Ukrainian Rite)

Bishop Mykhajlo Sabryha, C.SS.R.
(1993.04.20 – 2006.06.29)

Born:	1940.11.22 (Ukraine)
Ordained Priest:	1974.02.24
Consecrated Bishop:	1986.10.11
Died:	2006.06.29 († 65)

Titular Bishop of Bucellus (1991.01.16 – 1993.04.20)

Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv–Halyč–Kamyanets of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (1991.01.16 – 1993.04.20)

Bishop of Ternopil–Zboriv of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (1993.04.20 – 2006.06.29)

Former Prelates

Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Vasyl Semeniuk (73) (later Archbishop) (2004.02.10 – 2006.10.19)

Contact Info

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Statistics

Area: 8,346 km²

Population: 380,700 Catholics (60.8% of 626,300 total) (2020)

Statistics: 267 parishes, 323 priests (289 diocesan, 34 religious), 1 deacon, 80 lay religious (42 brothers, 38 sisters), 159 seminarians (2020)

History

1993.04.20: Established as Diocese of Ternopil / Ternopolien(sis) (Latin) (from Major Archdiocese of Lviv–Halyč–Kamyanets)
2000.07.21: Renamed as Diocese of Ternopil–Zboriv / Ternopolien(sis)–Zboroven(sis) (Latin) (gained territory from the suppressed Diocese of Zboriv and lost territory to establish Diocese of Bučač and Diocese of Sokal)
2011.11.21: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ternopil–Zboriv / Ternopolien(sis)–Zboroven(sis) (Latin) (with suffragan see Bučač)
2015.12.11: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilsky and gained suffragan see Kamyanets-Podilsky

Ukrainian Metropolitan Archdiocese of

Ternopil–Zboriv