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Location
Legal Name
Church of St. Bartholomew the Apostle
Founded Date
December 1392
One of the oldest preserved buildings in Drohobych, located in the center of Drohobych at: st. Danylo Halytsky, 12.
From the history of the temple
The wooden church of the Blessed Virgin Mary used to be located on the site of the present church. However, in December 1392 , King Władysław Jagiello , while in Drohobych, issued a document establishing a new brick Gothic church, which was to be both a defensive structure. The temple was built on the site of the tower of the prince's voivode.
At the consecration, the church received the title of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Holy Apostle Bartholomew. He was the predecessor of the current Church of St. Apostle Bartholomew, on the site of which later appeared a modern church.
In 1511 , Bartholomew's Church was rebuilt after significant damage to the Tatars and Wallachians in 1498 . It is the first third of the XV century and is considered the time of construction of the modern church.
An ancient Russian defensive fortress tower of a 13th -century child was built under the church bell tower .
Read more: Bell tower of the Church of St. Bartholomew (Drohobych).
Attacks on the city, accompanied by the destruction of the shrine, continued, in particular in 1594 , 1624 and 1648 . In 1664 the church was partially restored.
During the 17th and 20th centuries, the defensive tower was rebuilt into a bell tower (1739), the old and new altars were re-equipped , loopholes were liquidated and the roof was lowered ( 1790-1793). At the same time, at the end of the XVIII century a chapel was added to the church .
Subsequent restorations of the Church of St. Bartholomew of Drohobych were carried out in 1881-1882 , 1906 -1913 and in the 30s of the XX century (in particular, the frescoes were restored then).
During the USSR after the Second World War in 1949 , the church was closed and housed a theater props.
Since 1989 , the church has been returned to the city's Roman Catholic community.
In 2007 , on the Independence Day of Ukraine , which coincides with the church holiday of the oldest monument in Drohobych - the Church of St. Bartholomew the Apostle, a majestic monument to Pope John Paul II was erected and solemnly unveiled in front of the entrance to the shrine . to John Paul II (the fifth in Ukraine as a whole). Among the guests who arrived at the celebration were Bishop Maryan Buchek of Lviv , Roman Catholic priests from Zhydachiv , Gnizdychiv , Truskavets , representatives of the Polish community of Stryj , a delegation of the city council of the Polish city of Sanok.
On August 24, 2017, a parish holiday in honor of St. Bartholomew the Apostle and the consecration of the new main altar took place in Drohobych. Those celebrations, as well as the Liturgy of the Eucharist, were presided over and the Word of God was delivered by the Auxiliary Bishop of the Lviv Archdiocese Edward Kava OFM Conv. During the Liturgy, he not only consecrated the new main altar, but also a copy of the image of the Mother of God of Kokhavin, located in the side nave of the church.
The altar, which was consecrated that day, was built during the year. On the beginning of its construction, the abbot Fr. Myroslav Lech decided in July 2016. The work was completed in August 2017. The altar was designed by Fr. Lavrentiy Ivanchuk OH. Carpenters from Zolochiv, headed by Mr. Andriy Melnyk, undertook to build the altar.
The Church of the Holy Apostle Bartholomew in Drohobych is an architectural monument of national importance.
Description
Bartholomew's Church in Drohobych is a single-nave church with an elongated faceted five-walled altar .
The facades of the brick walls of the temple and the buttresses are decorated with a lacy diamond -shaped ornament , which is also made of brick, which has a dark brown or dark red watering.
The nave of the church has high stepped Gothic pediments on the western and eastern facades .
The church looks monumental due to the lack of small divisions.
In the interior of the temple there are four supporting pillars bearing the system of cross vaults ; in the altar part - a ribbed vault.
Information about the altar:
The altar consists of 3 parts (width 8 m, height approx. 15.5 m).
In the side parts of the altar there are wooden white figures of the Apostles Peter and Paul, on the top of the side parts there are oil paintings painted in Drohobych, which represent the archangels Gabriel and Raphael. In the middle of the altar, the tabernacle is surrounded by a series of golden columns, above which are two angels, and between them the icon of the Mother of God of Perpetual Help (an icon that is more than 100 years old, is a Roman copy of Stryi).
In the central part of the altar is a crucifix, which was saved from burning. Above the cross is the figure of St. Bartholomew the Apostle, and at the end of the altar is the figure of St. Archangel Michael, made by a carver from the vicinity of Drohobych. The most important elements of the tabernacle, figures and images are illuminated by LED lighting.
For the Drohobych Church of the Holy Apostle Bartholomew is, as for all Gothic architecture, a profound revelation of the inner temple space.
During the restoration work carried out in the church in the XVIII century , the interiors of the church were repainted by the artist Andriy Solitsky in the late Baroque style . In addition to religious drawings, there were also compositions on historical themes: the scene of the defeat of the Drohobych church by the Cossacks Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the Tatars in 1648 , the scene of the Austrian Emperor Joseph II granting ancient rights to Drohobych and others. The frescoes were made by master Borsch around 1800 . Stained glass windows were made in the XIX century .
Many valuable interior items perished during the Second World War , and even more were destroyed by the Bolshevik barbarians, but several interesting objects still survive. These are, in particular, fragments of Solitsky's paintings, an ancient fresco depicting St. Christopher , which combines the artistic traditions of the late Gothic and Renaissance. Also in the church you can see the Renaissance tombstone of Kateryna Ramultova, made by Sebastian Czechek in 1572 . Stained glass windows designed by 19th century artists J. Matejko, S. Wyspianski and J. Mehoffer are also noteworthy. An ancient icon has been preserved in the altar part of the temple, written by the famous Italian artist Tommaso Dolabella. Ukrainian artist and carver Ivan Lukych Wendzilovych also worked on the interior decoration.
Today the Church of the Holy Apostle Bartholomew is served by priests from the Drohobych Roman Catholic Parish of the Holy Apostle Bartholomew. The church belongs to the Stryi deanery of the RCC.
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Sources
- Drohobych. Church (XV century) // Ukraine and Moldova. Guide. - M. — Leipzig, 1982. - P. 396—397.
- Zaucha T. Parish Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary , Św. Cross and St. Batłomieja in Drohobycz // Materials for the works of sacred art in the lands of the eastern Rzeczypospolita. - Kraków: Międzynarodowe Centrum Kultury, 1998. - Cz. I: Roman Catholic Churches and Clusters of the Old Russian Voivodeship. - Vol. 6.
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