Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Chełm–Belz
Eparchy of Chełm and Belz Dioecesis Chelmensis et Belthiensis Ruthenorum | |
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Location | |
Headquarters | Chełm, Poland |
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Sui iuris church | Ukrainian Greek Catholic |
Rite | Byzantine Rite |
Dissolved | 1875 (suppressed) |
Cathedral | Nativity of the Mother of God Cathedral in Chełm |
Language | Church Slavonic |
The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Chełm–Bełz (or Chełm–Bełz of the Ukrainians ) was an Eparchy (Eastern Catholic diocese) of the particular Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church sui iuris (Byzantine Rite) in part of Poland from 1596 till 1875.
History[]
- Established in 1596 as Diocese of Chełm–Bełz / Chelmen(sis) et Belthien(sis) Rutenorum (Latin), on Polish (or imperial Russian) territory not previously served by the particular church.
- Suppressed on 18 March 1875 without successor.
Episcopal ordinaries[]
(all Ukrainian Rite)
- Suffragan eparchs (eishops) of Chełm–Bełz
- Dionysius (Zbyruyskyy) (1596 – 1603)
- Arseniusz Joann (1604 – 1619)
- Atanazy Pakosta (1619 – death 1625?)
- Teodor Mieleszko (1625 – 1626)
- Metody Terlecki, Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat (O.S.B.M.) (1630 – death 7 June 1649)
- Atanazy Zachariasz Furs (1649 – death 1649)
- Jakub Jan Susza, O.S.B.M. (1652 – death 4 September 1687)
- Augustyn Aleksander Łodziata (1687 – death 1691?)
- Jan Małachowski (1691 – death 1693), previously Bishop of Przemyśl of the Ukrainians (Poland) (1670 – 1691)
- Gedeon Woyna-Orański (1693 – 1709)
- Josyf Levyckyj (1711 – death 15 June 1730)
- Felicjan Filip Wołodkowicz (Feliks Filipp Volodkovič), O.S.B.M. (1731 – 12 January 1756), next Coadjutor Archbishop of Kyiv–Halyč of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (12 January 1756 – 18 July 1762), Eparch (Bishop) of Volodymyr–Brėst of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (22 November 1758 – 1 February 1778), Metropolitan Archeparch (Archbishop) of Kyiv–Halyč of the Ukrainians (18 July 1762 – death 1 February 1778)
- Maksymilian Rylo, O.S.B.M. (1758–1784)
- Tadeusz Teodozy Rostocki, O.S.B.M. (2 July 1784 – 4 April 1790), next coadjutor archbishop of Kyiv–Halyč of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (11 April 1785 – 1 November 1788), succeeding as Metropolitan Archeparch (Archbishop) of Kyiv–Halyč of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (1 November 1788 – death 25 January 1805)
- Porfiriusz Skarbek-Ważyński (1790 – death 9 March 1804)
- Ferdynand Dąbrowa-Ciechanowski, O.S.B.M. (18 July 1810 – death 7 April 1828)
- Filip Felicjan Szumborski, O.S.B.M. (29 January 1830 – death 19 January 1851)
- Jan Teraszkiewicz (January 1851 – death 1 March 1863), succeeding as former auxiliary bishop of Chełm–Bełz of the Ukrainians (30 August 1842 – January 1851)
- Jan Mikołaj Kaliński (16 March 1863 – death 19 October 1866)
- Michał Kuzemśki (22 June 1868 – retired 1871), died 1879.
See also[]
- the former Roman Catholic Diocese of Chełm(-Lublin)
- List of Catholic dioceses in Poland
References[]
Sources and external links[]
Categories:
- Chełm
- Ruthenian Uniate eparchies
- Former Eastern Catholic dioceses
- Eastern Catholicism in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Former dioceses in Europe
- 1596 establishments
- Religious organizations established in the 1590s
- 16th-century establishments in Poland
- Religious organizations disestablished in 1875
- 19th-century disestablishments in Poland
- 1870s disestablishments in the Russian Empire