Chernivtsi and Suceava Deaneries of the Greek Catholic Church During the Pastoral Activities of Bishop H.Khomyshyn

Abstract

The article is devoted to the activity of the outstanding religious-church and public-political figure of Stanyslaviv Bishop Blessed Martyr Hryhorii Khomyshyn in Bukovyna. The influence of the Bishop on the state of affairs in the Bukovynian parishes of the Greek Catholic Church, their interrelations during the entrance of the region to the royal Romania has been analyzed. Particular attention is paid to the residence of H. Khomyshyn in Chernivtsi in the spring of 1915. The author used various materials (some of them for the first time): annual official church statistical collections, archival documents, publications in the local press and memoirs of contemporaries.

Keywords: Bukovyna, Hryhorii Khomyshyn, Greek Catholic Church, deanery, parish, visitation