Kyiv Theological Seminary of the Three Holy Hierarchs: Difference between revisions

'''Kyiv Theological Seminary of the Three Holy Hierarchs''' is [[seminary]] of the [[Ukrainian Greek- Catholic Church]] near [[Kyiv|Kyiv, Ukraine]], which is jointly administered by the and the [[Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Kyiv]], and the missionary [[exarchate]]s of [[Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Lutsk|Lutsk]], [[Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Kharkiv|Kharkiv]], [[Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Odesa-Crimea|Odesa]], and [[Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk|Donetsk]].<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=https://ktds.org.ua/about/a-brief-history-of-the-kyiv-three-holy-hierarchs-major-seminary/ |title=Київська Трьохсвятительська духовна семінарія УГКЦ / A brief history of the Kyiv Three Holy Hierarchs Major Seminary |publisher=Ktds.org.ua |date= |accessdate=2021-12-15}}</ref> When the Ukrainian Catholic Church was [[Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church#Partitions of the Commonwealth and the Uniate church in Russia, Prussia, and Austria|banned in the Russian Empire]] in the 19th century, the Church existed only in Western Ukraine and the [[Ukrainian diaspora|diaspora]]. After Ukraine [[Ukrainian independence|declared independence]] from the Soviet Union in 1991, the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church began to return to Central and Eastern Ukraine. The [[Lists of leaders of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church|See of Lviv and Halych]] was returned to Kyiv in 2004 after a nearly 200-year exile. Soon thereafter, the seminary was created by Patriarch [[Lubomyr Husar]] to serve the new territories. There had existed a Ukrainian Catholic seminary in [[Radomyshl]] serving the See of Kyiv at the end of the 18th century, so that is sometimes cited as the origins of the modern-day seminary.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ktds.org.ua/news/our/34616-u-vatikani-o-d-r-roman-ostrovskiy-rozpoviv-pro-istoriyu-ta-zhittya-kiyivskoyi-syeminariyi/ |title=Київська Трьохсвятительська духовна семінарія УГКЦ / У Ватикані о. д-р. Роман Островський розповів про історію та життя Київської семінарії |publisher=Ktds.org.ua |date=2019 |accessdate=2021-12-15}}</ref>