History of Galicia (Eastern Europe)

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 74. Chapters: History of Kraków, Jews and Judaism in Galicia (Eastern Europe), Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Balthasar Behem Codex, Ukrainian Russophiles, Ukraine prison ministry, Western Ukrainian Clergy, Kraków pogrom, Santi Sergio e Bacco, Lendians, Stefan Czmil, Seniorate Province, Priestly Society of Saint Josaphat, Free City of Kraków, 1923 Kraków riot, Orientales Omnes, Conversion of Chelm Eparchy, Kraków Ghetto, Ukrainian Catholic University, Chlopomania, Miles Jesu, History of Sambir, Zarvanytsia, Bank Emisyjny w Polsce, Order of Saint Basil the Great, Kraków Voivodeship, Kraków-Plaszów concentration camp, Lemko Republic, Kraków Uprising, Dzhublyk, Archbishop of Kraków, Operation Reinhard in Kraków, Galicia Jewish Museum, Lemkivshchyna, Talerhof, Grand Duchy of Cracow, Metodyj Trochanovskij, Hans Boner, Komancza Republic, Sonderaktion Krakau, Studite Brethren, Christian Social Movement in Ukraine, Rebellion of wójt Albert, Louis Aloysius, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein, Romanian occupation of Pokuttya, Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Przemysl, List of Major Archbishops of Kiev¿Galicia, Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic Schools, Congress of Kraków, Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic High School, Innocent Lotocky, Krakus, Santa Sofia a Via Boccea, Jaroslav Kacmarcyk, Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474, Krekhiv, Kraków School of Mathematics, Prussian Homage, Kraków grosz, Józef Dietl, Treaty of Kraków, Metropolitan Palace, Lviv, Kraków zloty, Siege of Kraków, Kraków Department, Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Odessa ¿ Crimea, Hoshiv, Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk ¿ Kharkiv, Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Lutsk, Palaces of Kraków, Sodalitas Litterarum Vistulana, Kraków District. Excerpt: The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) (Ukrainian: ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿-¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿ (¿¿¿¿), Ukrainska Greko-Katolytska Tserkva), is the largest Eastern Rite Catholic sui juris particular church in full communion with the Holy See, and is directly subject to the Pope. The Primate of the Church holds the office of Archbishop-Major of Kiev-Halych and All Rus, though the hierarchs of the church have acclaimed their primate "Patriarch" and have requested Papal recognition of, and elevation to, this title. The Church is one of the successor Churches to the acceptance of Christianity by Grand Prince Vladimir the Great of Kiev, in 988. The Church has followed the spread of the Ukrainian diaspora, and now has some 40 hierarchs in over a dozen countries on four continents, including three other metropolitans in Poland, the United States, and Canada. The head of the church is Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, since March 2011 Within Ukraine itself, the UGCC is a minority faith of the religious population, being a distant second to the majority Eastern Orthodox faith. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is the second largest religious organization in Ukraine in terms of number of communities. In terms of number of faithful, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church ranks third in allegiance among the population of Ukraine, after the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate. Currently, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church predominates in three western oblasts of Ukraine, but constitutes a small minority elsewhere in the country. The Ukrainian Catholic Church did not exist, as such, unti...