Metadata: Greek Catholic Metropolitan Ordinariate, L’viv
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine, Lviv
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний історичний архів України, м. Львів
- Postal address:
- pl. Soborna, 3-а, 79008, L’viv
- Phone number:
- + 38 (032) 235-40-63
- Web address:
- tsdial.archіves.gov.ua
- Email:
- tsdial@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 408
- Title:
- Greek Catholic Metropolitan Ordinariate, L’viv
- Title (official language):
- Греко-католицький митрополичий ординаріат, м. Львів
- Creator/accumulator:
- Greek Catholic Metropolitan Ordinariate, L’viv
- Date(s):
- 1531/1945
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- Polish
- Latin
- German
- Extent:
- 1,403 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds includes letters of individuals who had converted or intended to convert from Judaism to the Christian (Greek Catholic) faith; the letters represent their requests for material or other assistance (1925-38). There is also the text of a discussion held by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky in July 1939 with a representative of a Zionist organisation, in which the former declares himself to be in favour of the revival of the Jewish people and the restoration of Jewish statehood in Palestine, and refers to Zionism as a healthy and natural liberation movement based in the loftiest human ethics, and as the embodiment of the messianic idea of Judaism.
The fonds also contains a letter from the Metropolitan Ordinariate to the Ukrainian Central Committee in which it is proposed that an appeal be made to the occupation authorities that Jews who were of definite service to the Ukrainian people be protected, following the model of how Jews who had been of service to Germany were treated (1944).
There is a separate group of materials consisting of articles, reviews, and lecture notes on Jewish subjects. Among them is an article by L. Schaff titled “Jewish Involvement in Polish Agriculture (A General View on the Judicial and Legal Status of Jews)” (a typescript in Polish, of a primarily statistical nature, with corrections by the author; undated); lecture notes on the exodus of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery (by an unidentified author, written in Ukrainian with insertions in Latin); a synopsis of lectures by the Jesuit biblical scholar Joseph Linder titled “Exegesis in Exodum” (“An Exegesis on Exodus,” undated), also on the exodus from Egypt (a typescript in Latin, with small fragments in German); an article by Illarion Karpiak titled “Biblical History of the Old Testament” (1932); a preface by an unidentified author to the first edition of The Judaic Review (Przegląd Judaistyczny, 1922), which covers the course of Jewish emancipation, suggests a connection between the Bolshevik revolution and Jews, and emphasizes the need to study the “Jewish question.”
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Greek Catholic Metropolitan Ordinariate in L’viv was established no later than 1863 as an executive auxiliary body of the consistory and chapter. It was in charge of custodianship of the physical condition of churches and monasteries, and financed the construction, repair, and demolition of buildings; kept records of the income and expenses of metropolitan estates; appointed, transferred, and dismissed parish priests and religious teachers; oversaw the admission and dismissal of students of theological seminaries in Lwów, Stanisławów, and Przemyśl, and provided them with scholarships and ordained them as priests; organised “spiritual missions,” and provided material assistance to believers; heard complaints from the public regarding the behaviour of priests; etc. The ordinariate consisted of the metropolitan, bishops, and members of the chapter. It was abolished in late 1945.
- Access points: locations:
- Lwów
- Access points: persons/families:
- Linder, Josef
- Sheptytsky, Andrey
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged according to the thematic-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
