Bilobozhnytsia (Ukrainian: Білобожниця) is a village in Ukraine, Ternopil Oblast, Chortkiv Raion, Bilobozhnytsia rural hromada.[1]

Bilobozhnytsia
Білобожниця
Saints Peter and Paul church
Saints Peter and Paul church
Coat of arms of Bilobozhnytsia
Bilobozhnytsia is located in Ukraine
Bilobozhnytsia
Bilobozhnytsia
Location in Ternopil Oblast
Bilobozhnytsia is located in Ternopil Oblast
Bilobozhnytsia
Bilobozhnytsia
Bilobozhnytsia (Ternopil Oblast)
Coordinates: 49°2′58″N 25°40′53″E / 49.04944°N 25.68139°E / 49.04944; 25.68139
Country Ukraine
Oblast Ternopil Oblast
RaionChortkiv Raion
HromadaBilobozhnytsia Hromada
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
48530

History edit

The first written mention dates from 1532.[2]

Religion edit

  • Church of the Transfiguration (OCU, 1901, brick, rebuilt in 1991)[2]
  • Church of the Transfiguration (UGCC, 2008)[2]
  • Saints Peter and Paul church (RCC, 2001)[2]

People edit

  • Mykhailo Borysykevych (1848–1899), Ukrainian ophthalmologist, Doctor of Medicine[2]
  • Taras Senkiv (born 1960), Eparchial Bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stryi[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Білобожницька територіальна громада, Децентралізація
  2. ^ a b c d e f (in Ukrainian) Б. Мельничук, В. Уніят, М. Федечко, Білобожниця // Ternopil region. History of cities and villages: in 3 v. / Ternopil: "Terno-graph", 2014, V. 3: М—Ш, S. 454—497. — ISBN 978-966-457-246-7.