Diocese of Stryj, Ukraine 🇺🇦 (Ukrainian Rite)

Continent: East Europe

Rite: Ukrainian (Byzantine)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Stryj / Strien(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Lviv

Neighbouring Dioceses: Sambir–Drohobych (←), Lviv (↑), Ternopil–Zboriv (→), Ivano-Frankivsk (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

Websites:

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Saint James Minor (November 5)

History

2000.07.21: Established as Diocese of Stryj / Strien(sis) (Latin) (from Major Archdiocese of Lviv–Halyč–Kamyanets)
2004.12.06: Became suffragan of Kyiv
2011.11.21: Became suffragan of Lviv

Present Prelates

Bishop (2014.04.02 – ...):	Bishop Taras Senkiv, O.M. (65)
Auxiliary Bishop (2014.04.02 – ...):	Bishop Bohdan Manyshyn (53) Titular Bishop of Lesvi

Ordinaries

Bishops of Stryj (Ukrainian Rite)

Bishop Taras Senkiv, O.M. (65)
(2014.04.02 – ...)

Bishop of Stryj of the Ukrainians (Ukraine)

Все може той, хто любить Бога

Born:	1960.07.03 (Bilobozhytsia, Ukraine)
Ordained Priest:	1982.05.28
Consecrated Bishop:	2008.07.20

Titular Bishop of Siccenna (2008.05.22 – 2014.04.02)

Auxiliary Bishop of Stryj of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (2008.05.22 – 2014.04.02)

Apostolic Administrator sede plena of Stryj of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (2010.01.20 – 2011.03.24)

Apostolic Administrator of Stryj of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (2011.03.24 – 2014.04.02)

Bishop of Stryj of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (2014.04.02 – ...)

Bishop Taras Senkiv, O.M. (65)
(Apostolic Administrator 2011.03.24 – 2014.04.02)

Bishop Taras Senkiv, O.M. (65)
(Apostolic Administrator sede plena 2010.01.20 – 2011.03.24)

Bishop Julian Gbur, S.V.D.
(2000.07.21 – 2011.03.24)

Спаси, Господи, люди Твоя

Born:	1942.11.14 (Brzezawa, Poland)
Ordained Priest:	1970.06.21
Consecrated Bishop:	1994.07.07
Died:	2011.03.24 (Lviv, Ukraine † 68)

Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv–Halyč–Kamyanets of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) ([1994.02.21] 1994.03.30 – 1996)

Titular Bishop of Bareta (1994.03.30 – 2000.07.21)

Bishop of Stryj of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (2000.07.21 – 2011.03.24)

Former Prelates

Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Taras Senkiv, O.M. (65) (2008.05.22 – 2014.04.02)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin, Stryi (Стрий), Lviv Oblast
Pro-Cathedral: Pro-Cathedral of St. Nicolas, Peremyshlyany (Перемишляни), Lviv Oblast
Jubilee Churches in the Holy Year 2025

Sambir–Drohobych (←), Lviv (↑), Ternopil–Zboriv (→), Ivano-Frankivsk (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 4,124 km²

Population: 284,515 Catholics (74.7% of 380,740 total)

Pastoral Centres: 362 parishes

Personnel: 293 priests (291 diocesan, 2 religious), 26 religious (4 brothers, 22 sisters), 54 seminarians

Ukrainian Diocese of

Stryj