The majestic brick church with a complex of church buildings is located in the center of Drohobych, near the town hall , at the address: st. Truskavets, 2.
From the history of the temple
The wooden church of the Holy Trinity in Drohobych was built in 1555 , not far from the current church.
The present church was built in 1690 as a Roman Catholic church, and the adjacent premises were completed much later as a monastery of the Carmelite Fathers .
In 1795 , Emperor Joseph II liquidated the monastery, nationalizing the property.
In 1808 , the Russian ( Ukrainian ) community bought a church and premises for the Greek Catholic Church and school from the government of the Austrian Empire .
This spiritual complex was later placed under the care of the Basilian Fathers , but it remained the property of the city.
The church was renovated in 1894 - 1905 . The iconostasis was painted in 1909 by the talented Galician painter Modest Sosenko .
After the transfer of the Carmelite church oo. To the Basilians, baroque ornaments were removed from it, the walls were painted and decorated with icons of saints, two Gothic arrow towers were removed, and two naves were completed.
View of the cathedral from the town hall tower
Many saints of the Ukrainian nation prayed and studied in the church, including the prominent public figure and writer Ivan Franko .
The Drohobych Church of the Holy Trinity and its clergy were persecuted by the UGCC after the Western Ukrainian lands became part of the Ukrainian SSR . Pastors Severian Baranyk , Yakym Senkivsky , Vitaliy Bayrak , Yevhen Nyshchyk and Pavlo Zhupansky became martyrs of the faith - they were convicted and executed by the NKVD in 1941-1947 , and the last two died in Siberian camps.
The Synod of Bishops of the UGCC, which took place in St. George's Spiritual Complex from May 16 to 31, 1992 , formed, and on July 12, 1993 , the Supreme Archbishop of Lviv, Metropolitan of Halych, Bishop of Kamianets -Podilskyi Myroslav-Ivan Lyubachivsky proclaimed a new Sambir-Drohobych UGCC .
Read more: Sambir-Drohobych Eparchy of the UGCC
The administrator of the newly created diocese was His Eminence Bishop Julian (Voronovsky) , Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv, Rector of the Theological Seminary of the Holy Spirit in Lviv . The Synod of Bishops, held in Lviv on February 20-27 , 1994 , elected Bishop Julian (Voronovsky) the first bishop of Sambir-Drohobych.
By the letter of the head of the UGCC of July 12, 1993 , the parish church of the Holy Trinity of Drohobych was defined as the Cathedral of the Sambir-Drohobych Diocese.
Photo
Postcard Congratulations from Drohobych. Church of St. Trinity.
Sources
Church and Parish of the Holy Trinity in Drohobych (to the 200th anniversary of the restoration of the parish in the city center) / Ed. prof. LV Tymoshenko. - Drogobich: Kolo, 2008. - 140 p. (author Stetsyk Yu., Pogranichny Oles (VOG)).
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