Apostolic Exarchate of Lemkowszczyzna

Apostolic Exarchate of Lemkowszczyzna Apostolica Exarchia Lemkovszczyznaensis Ucrainorum Апостольський Екзархат Лемківщини
Location
Territory	Southern-Eastern part of Poland
Ecclesiastical province	Immediately subject to the Holy See
Headquarters	Rymanów-Zdrój (until April 30, 1938) since – Sanok
Population - Catholics	127,580 (in 1943)
Information
Sui iuris church	Ukrainian Greek Catholic
Rite	Byzantine
Established	February 10, 1934
Dissolved	January 16, 1991 (in fact after 1947)
Cathedral	The Holy Spirit Church in Sanok
Patron saint	Immacolate Virgin Mary
Leadership
Exarch	Msgr. Oleksandr Malynovskyi (last Apostolic Exarch).

The Apostolic Exarchate of Lemkowszczyzna (Polish: Egzarchat Apostolski Łemkowszczyzny; Ukrainian: Апостольський Екзархат Лемківщини) was a short-lived missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction (exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See) of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (Byzantine Rite in Ukrainian language), which was created as the Apostolic Administration of Lemkowszczyzna and then promoted as an Apostolic Exarchate.

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Map of the circumscriptions of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in 1939

History

• February 10, 1934: Established as the Apostolic Administration of Lemkowszczyzna on territory of the 9 western deaneries, that split off from the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Przemyśl, Sambir and Sanok.
• February 1941: Promoted as the Apostolic Exarchate of Lemkowszczyzna.
• Factically ceased to exist after the expulsion of Ukrainians from Poland to the Soviet Union in 1944–1945 and Operation Vistula in July 1947.
• January 16, 1991: Officially suppressed and its territory merged into the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Przemyśl.

Apostolic Administrators and Apostolic Exarches

(No prelates)

Apostolic Administrators of Lemkowszczyzna

• Fr. Vasyl Mastsyukh (November 17, 1934 – death March 12, 1936)
• Fr. Yakiv Medvetskyi (July 3, 1936 – death January 27, 1941)
• Msgr. Oleksandr Malynovskyi (February 5, 1941 – February 1941 see below)

Apostolic Exarch of Lemkowszczyzna

• Msgr. Oleksandr Malynovskyi (see above February 1941 – September 1945) (later Vicar general for the Ukrainians in Great Britain)

Source and External links

• GCatholic.org information on the Apostolic Exarchate
• Profile at Catholic Hierarchy
• Shematismus of the Apostolic Exarchate (Ukrainian)