Basilian monastery, Buchach

Vew from Buchach townhall

Basilian monastery, Buchach (Ukrainian: Бучацький монастир оо. Василіян) is a monastery in Buchach, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. For centuries, it has been the one of the centers of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Western Ukraine. The monastery is situated near the Fedir hill in Buchach, 18 km southwest of Monastyryska and about 70 km south of Ternopil.

On December 7, 1712 in Lublin Stefan Aleksander Potocki and his wife Joanna née Sieniawska, daughter of Mikołaj Hieronim Sieniawski, issued funds in the amount of 30,000 zlotys clearly establishing the Basilian monastery in Buchach in order to improve education of the Greek Catholic clergy. Their son Mikołaj Bazyli Potocki remained a benefactor of the monastery.

In 1714 Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv represented by Archbishop Jan Skarbek transferred the small Roman Catholic church of Holy Cross to the Buchach Basilians, originally temporarily and on April 29, 1747 by decision of the new Latin Archbishop of Lviv Mikołaj Gerard Wyżycki, permanently.

On September 18, 1771 with the permission of Metropolitan Leo Sheptytsky the abbot of the monastery, Father Innocent Mshanetskyy consecrated the newly built monastery church of the Elevation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross.

The monastery bell tower was built in 1849-1854.

The monastery monks visited Metropolitan Venerable Andrey Sheptytsky.

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