Saint Michael Church, Lanivtsi
church in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine
Saint Michael Church (Ukrainian: Церква святого архистратига Михаїла) is a parish of the same name of the Greek Catholic (UGCC) and Orthodox (OCU) communities in Lanivtsi, Borshchiv urban hromada, Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast.
History
The wooden church in Lanivtsi was built in the middle of the eighteenth century. The street where the church was built, and later the village, was named Kozachchyna. In the same period, a monastery of the Order of St. Basil the Great was also built in the village, which existed until the reduction of 1783. Its abbot was Father Kornelii.
In 1785, the construction of a new stone Church of St. Michael began to replace the old wooden one. The construction was completed in 1802, during the service of the priest Father Vasyl (Bazylii) Lukashevych.
In 1898, with the assistance of Father O. Ulanytskyi, a monastery of the Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Virgin Mary was founded in the village.
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