Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halyč

The Roman Catholic (Arch)diocese of Halyč was a late-medieval Latin Catholic (arch)bishopric in Galicia (and originally Volhynia; both in present Ukraine) from 1367 till 1414.

History[]

• Established 1367 as Diocese of Halyč / Galicia (English) / Halicien(sis) (Latin), on the political territory of Galicia and surroundings in modern Ukraine.
• Lost territory in 1375 in Volhynia to establish the Diocese of Lodomeria
• Promoted on 1375.02.13 as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Halyč / Galicia (English) / Halicien(sis) (Latin adjective)
• Suppressed on 1414.12.24, its territory being merged into the Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv (Lemberg, Lvov), which its last incumbent was indeed transferred to.

Ordinaries[]

(all Roman Rite)

Suffragan Bishops of Halyč

• Tomasz ze Lwowa (1358 – death 1363)
• Krystyn z Ostrowa, Conventual Franciscans (O.F.M. ?Conv.) (1364 – death 1371)
• Antoni (1371 – 1375)

Metropolitan Archbishops of Halyč

• z Egeru (1376.01 – death 1380)
• Bernard, O.F.M. ?Conv. (1385 – death 1391)
• Blessed Jakub Strzemię, O.F.M. ?Conv. (1392.10.28 – death 1409.10.20)
• Mikołaj Trąba (1410.06.18 – 1412.04.30), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Gniezno (Gnesen, Poland) (1412.04.30 – death 1422.12.02)
• Jan Rzeszowski (1412.08.26 – death 1414.12.23), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv (Lemberg, Lwow, Ukraine) (1414.12.23 – 1436.08.12).

See also[]

• List of Catholic dioceses in Ukraine

Sources and external links[]

• GCatholic - data for all sections