Lviv Theological Seminary

The seminary in Lviv was founded by Emperor Joseph II on August 30, 1783 under the name "General Theological Seminary in Lviv." Her mission was to educate priests from Galicia, Transcarpathia, Pryashevschina, Krizhevets diocese (Yugoslavia), Transylvania and Croatia. Its first rector was the Galician Metropolitan Anthony Angelovich . His successor or one of them was Ivan Lavrovsky (1773-1846) ^[1] . While studying at the seminary of Markian Shashkevich (in particular, 1836), the rector was Telekhovsky.

In October 1848, the "Seminar of Russian Scientists " was held at the seminary. ^[2]

In 1929, the efforts of the Count and Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky on the basis of the seminary created the Greek Catholic Theological Academy .

In 1939, after the invasion of the Red Army, the seminary was closed. In the same year, the premises of the Lviv Theological Seminary on Copernicus Street became the property of Lviv State University. Ivan Franco. During World War II, the activities of the seminary were temporarily restored.

In 1945, the Soviet government again eliminated the seminary. Most of its professors and teachers were arrested and exiled to concentration camps; the premises, property and library of the academy are confiscated, and graduates and students of the seminary are scattered throughout Ukraine and around the world. The seminary continued to exist underground. After receiving the blessing of the bishop for training, seminarians went to secular work daily, and in the evenings they met with the teacher in certain places (for safety, even the parents did not inform the parents about his training and priestly ordination). Other young men, unable to meet with the underground Church, but who felt called to the priesthood, studied at the legal seminaries of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, the UGCC began to leave the underground. Some priests of the ROC and the Greek Catholic underground moved into the fold of the Greek Catholic Church. To restore the Lviv Theological Seminary, the authorities did not give up the old seminary premises on the street. Copernicus in Lviv.

In 1990, the Lviv Theological Seminary officially resumed its activities on the territory of a dilapidated summer pioneer camp in the village of Rudno, Lviv region, at a distance of 12 km from Lviv.

With the coming to the post of rector of the seminary, Father Dr. Bogdan Prakh, in 1999, work began on the design and construction of a new complex of the Spiritual and Educational Center of the UGCC directly in the city of Lviv. The city authorities allocated for this construction an area of ​​about 17 hectares on the street. Khutorivka in Lviv. The site was dedicated to the construction of the Theological Center in 2000. Since 2001, the design of the new building of the Lviv Theological Seminary in Lviv has begun. During 2001-2005, a new complex of buildings was built as part of the building of the Lviv Theological Seminary, the theological and philosophical faculty of the Ukrainian Catholic University, the economic building of the seminary and the building of student Reo Reymptoristov in the territory allotted to the city on ul. Khutorivka in Lviv. The consecration of the new complex of the Lviv Theological Seminary of the UGCC took place in August 2005 in Lviv with the participation of Patriarch Lubomir (Guzar) and members of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC.

For the implementation of this complex by Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 569 on the award of State Prizes of Ukraine in the field of architecture in 2008, the group of authors was awarded the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of architecture.

• Vasil Veriga. Narisi from the history of Ukraine (Kinets XVIII - cob of the nineteenth century). - Lviv: Svіt, 1996 .-- 448 p. - ISBN 5-7773-0359-5 .