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Катедральний хор відвідує Український Католицький Університет в Львові
зліва - пані Х. Головко, пані Т. Яворська, о. Б. Ґудзяк, пан В. Головко
Український Католицький Університет
Established: 6 October 1929, Re-established September 1994
Type: private, Catholic
Chancellor: Archbishop Dr. Sviatoslav Shevchuk
Rector: Rev. Dr. Borys Gudziak
Academic staff : 105
Location Lviv, Ukraine
The Ukrainian Catholic University (Ukrainian: Український Католицький Університет, Ukrains'kyy Katolyts'kyy Universytet) is a Catholic university in Lviv, Ukraine, affiliated with the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The ceremonial inauguration honoring its founding took place on June 29, 2002. The Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) is the first Catholic university to open on the territory of the former Soviet Union and also the first university opened by one of the Eastern Catholic Churches.
Beginning and turmoil
On October 6, 1929, the Greek Catholic Theological Academy was founded in Lviv. Under the guidance of rector Joseph Slipyj, the Academy became the center for theological and philosophic studies almost overnight.
By the time when largely Ukrainian populated Eastern Galicia was under the control of interwar Poland, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church attained a strong Ukrainian national character; and since the Polish authorities did not allow the creation of secular Ukrainian university, as that would have impeded their Polonization policies, the Academy became the sole Ukrainian institution of higher education on the territory of the Second Polish Republic. For the next ten years, the Academy continued to grow and expand by opening new departments, enlarging its library, and increasing its publishing capacity.
In September 1939, as a result of the Eastern Galicia falling under Soviet control, the Theological Academy was closed and its students arrested or deported. On September 15, 1941, shortly after the onset of the German invasion of the USSR the Academy's Church of the Holy Spirit and the library were ruined by the German bombings. Limited studies resumed under German occupation during the Second World War. Out of 500 students who studied at the Academy between 1941–1944, only 60 received diplomas. After the Red Army offensive recovered Lviv to the Soviets in the spring of 1945, the Theological Academy was closed, this time for decades, while many of its graduates and professors ended up in the Gulag system of prison camps. Soon afterwards at the Lviv Synod held in March 1946 under the pressure of the Soviet authorities the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was forcibly "united" with the recently recreated Ukrainian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church and the theological education under the UGCC, which formally "ceased to exist" in the USSR (but in reality was banned), was restricted to the underground as well as the entire UGCC as a whole. This period is known as the Church of the Catacombs in UGCC history.
Source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Catholic_University
Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv
