Roman Catholic Seminary in Lviv

Seminary in Lviv (now the Seminary of the Archdiocese of Lviv in Lviv-Bryukhovychi) - Roman Catholic seminary founded in Lviv in 1703.
The university was founded in 1703 as a seminary Cathedral in Lviv. After the partition of Polish, Austrian authorities in 1783 in Lviv formed the so-called General Seminar for all the dioceses of Galicia. The place of the seminar were the buildings of former monastery Carmelite Calced in Lviv (later Ossolineum. In 1814, a seminar Lviv separated from the Seminar General. The new location of the seminar were in buildings post-monastery Discalced Carmelites. Until World War II alumni seminar benefited from the intellectual formation of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Jan Kazimierz Lviv. After the end of World War II and the deportation of Poles from Lviv, in 1945 the seminary was moved to Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, but already in 1950, the communist authorities liquidated them.
The seminar resumed its operations on Dec. 12, 1996 Street. Lviv 62 in Bryukhovychi in Lviv. Since the historic buildings Seminary in Lviv have not been returned by the Ukrainian authorities, the seminary was founded in ruined purchased the sanatorium complex in Bryukhovychi near Lviv.
The first rector of the seminary reborn after World War I was the rector Fr. prof. of Lviv University Kazimierz Wais, and after World War II Metropolitan of Lviv Fr. Archbishop Marian Jaworski, rector of the seminary was also Fr. Bishop Boleslaw Twardowski, and Vice-Rector Prof. Bishop. Leon Wałęga. Currently, the rector is Fr. Piotr Brzeski<br>