The Archdiocese of Halyč was a late-medieval Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Galicia (and originally Volhynia; both in present Ukraine) from 1367 until 1414.
History edit
- 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 edit
- 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).
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