Lutsk (Diocese) [Catholic-Hierarchy]

Bishop(s)

Vitaliy Skomarovskyi, Bishop
Markijan Trofym’yak, Bishop Emeritus

General Information

Type of Jurisdiction: Diocese
Split: 28 October 1925
Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Lviv
Rite: Latin (or Roman)
Country: Ukraine
Square Kilometers: 40,190 (15,523 Square Miles)
Official Web Site: http://catholic.volyn.ua/
Mailing Address: Kuria Diecezjalna, vul. Katedralna 17, 43016 Lutsk, Ukraina
Telephone: (0332)72.15.32
Fax: (same)

Historical Details

Diocese of Lutsk (Łuck)
- Latin Name: Luceoriensis
- Erected: 1404
- Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Lviv
- Country: Ukraine
Diocese of Lutsk and Zhytomyr (Łuck and Zytomierz)
- Latin Name: Luceoriensis et Zytomiriensis
- United: 8 August 1798
- Country: Ukraine
Diocese of Lutsk, Zhytomyr, and Kamyanets-Podilskyi (Łuck, Zytomierz, and Kamienec)
- United: 1866
- Country: Ukraine
Diocese of Luceoria o Łuck e Zytomir o Zytomierz
- Latin Name: Luceoriensis et Zytomeriensis
- Split: 22 September 1918
- Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Mohilev
- Country: Ukraine

Past and Present Ordinaries

Izydor † ( 1375 Appointed - 1380 Died)
Rugiano † ( 1380 Appointed - 1400 Died)
Świętosław Jaroslai, O. Carm. † (12 May 1404 Appointed - )
Grzegorz Buczkowski, O.P. † ( 1413 Appointed - 1424 Died)
Andrzej Spławski † (21 Dec 1425 Appointed - 1459 Died)
Wenceslas Raczkowicz † (28 Sep 1459 Appointed - 1460 Died)
Jan Łesowicz † (24 Jan 1463 Appointed - 4 May 1468 Appointed, Bishop of Vilnius)
Martin Krzeszowski † (4 Jul 1468 Appointed - 1483 Died)
Stanislaw Strawski † (9 Nov 1483 Appointed - 1491 Died)
Jan Pudełko (Andruszewicz) † (2 Dec 1491 Appointed - 18 Sep 1501 Died)
Wojciech Radziwiłł † (30 May 1502 Appointed - 10 Sep 1507 Appointed, Bishop of Vilnius)
Paweł Algimunt Holszański † (10 Sep 1507 Appointed - 15 Mar 1536 Appointed, Bishop of Vilnius)
Jerzy Chwalczewski (Palczewski) † (24 Apr 1536 Appointed - 1549 Died)
Walerian Protosewicz † (27 May 1549 Appointed - 10 Apr 1556 Appointed, Bishop of Vilnius)
Jan Andruszewicz † (13 Apr 1556 Appointed - 1567 Died)
Wiktoryn Wierzbicki † (22 Aug 1567 Appointed - 10 Feb 1587 Died)
Bernard Maciejowski † (8 Jun 1587 Appointed - 23 May 1600 Appointed, Bishop of Kraków)
Stanisław Gomoliński † (30 Aug 1600 Appointed - 12 Dec 1602 Died)
Marcin Szyszkowski † (Jun 1604 Succeeded - 18 Jul 1607 Appointed, Bishop of Płock)
Paweł Wołucki † (30 Jul 1607 Appointed - 19 May 1616 Appointed, Bishop of Włocławek (Kujawy, Kalisze))
Henryk Firlej † (30 May 1616 Appointed - 9 Jan 1617 Appointed, Bishop of Płock)
Andrzej Lipski † (20 Feb 1617 Appointed - 20 Nov 1623 Appointed, Bishop of Włocławek (Kujawy, Kalisze))
Stanisław Łubieński † (26 Feb 1624 Appointed - 30 Aug 1627 Appointed, Bishop of Płock)
Achacy Grochowski † (6 Oct 1627 Appointed - 7 Jan 1633 Died)
Bogusław Radoszewski † (6 Jun 1633 Appointed - 1638 Died)
Andrzej Gembicki † (19 Apr 1638 Appointed - 1654 Died)
Jan Chrzciciel Zamoyski, O.P. † (19 Oct 1654 Appointed - 1 Jan 1655 Died)
Jan Stefan Wydżga † (14 May 1655 Appointed - 10 Nov 1659 Confirmed, Bishop of Warmia (Ermland))
Mikołaj Jan Prażmowski † (1 Dec 1659 Appointed - 11 Oct 1666 Appointed, Archbishop of Gniezno)
Zygmunt Czyżowski † (15 Dec 1666 Appointed - 1667 Died)
Tomasz Leżeński, O. Cist. † (5 Sep 1667 Appointed - 1675 Died)
Stanisław Kazimierz Dąmbski † (19 Oct 1676 Appointed - 20 Apr 1682 Appointed, Bishop of Płock)
Jan Stanisław Witwicki † (25 May 1682 Appointed - 24 Nov 1687 Appointed, Bishop of Poznań)
Bogusław Leszczyński † (11 Oct 1688 Confirmed - 8 Sep 1691 Died)
Franciszek Mikołaj Prażmowski † (24 Sep 1696 Confirmed - 3 Sep 1701 Died)
Aleksander Benedykt Wyhowski † (1 Oct 1703 Confirmed - 28 Dec 1714 Died)
Joachim Henryk Przebendowski † (5 Oct 1716 Confirmed - 21 May 1721 Died)
Stefan Bogusław Rupniewski † (1 Dec 1721 Appointed - 21 Apr 1731 Died)
Jan Aleksander Lipski † (31 Mar 1732 Appointed - 19 Dec 1732 Appointed, Bishop of Kraków)
Andrzej Stanisław Załuski † (19 Nov 1736 Appointed - 20 Jul 1739 Confirmed, Bishop of Chelmno (Culma, Kulm))
Franciszek Antoni Kobielski † (30 Sep 1739 Confirmed - 17 Jan 1755 Died)
Antoni Erazm Wołłowicz † (12 May 1755 Confirmed - 6 Jul 1770 Died)
Feliks Paweł Turski † (4 Mar 1771 Confirmed - 29 Nov 1790 Confirmed, Bishop of Kraków)
Adam Stanisław Naruszewicz † (29 Nov 1790 Confirmed - 6 Jul 1796 Died)
Kasper Kazimierz Kolumna Cieciszowski † (17 Nov 1798 Appointed - 23 Jun 1828 Appointed, Archbishop of Mohilev)
Michał Piwnicki † (23 Jun 1828 Succeeded - 29 May 1845 Died)
Kaspar Jastrzębeic Borowski † (3 Jul 1848 Appointed - 15 Mar 1883 Appointed, Bishop of Płock)
Szymon Marcin Kozłowski † (15 Mar 1883 Appointed - 14 Dec 1891 Appointed, Archbishop of Mohilev)
Cyril Lubowidzki † (2 Aug 1897 Appointed - 9 Jun 1898 Died)
Bolesław Hieronim Kłopotowski † (14 Dec 1899 Appointed - 15 Apr 1901 Appointed, Archbishop of Mohilev)
Karol Antoni Niedziałkowski † (15 Apr 1901 Appointed - 7 Apr 1911 Died)
Ignacy Maria Dubowski † (16 Oct 1916 Appointed - 1 Jun 1925 Resigned)
Adolf Piotr Szelążek † (14 Dec 1925 Appointed - 9 Feb 1950 Died)
Markijan Trofym’yak (25 Mar 1998 Appointed - 24 Jul 2012 Resigned)
Vitaliy Skomarovskyi (12 Apr 2014 Appointed - )

Historical Summary

Date	Event	From	To
Diocese of Lutsk (Łuck)
1404	Erected		Diocese of Lutsk (Łuck) (erected)
1425	Territory Added	Diocese of Vladimir (Wlodzimierz) (suppressed)	Diocese of Lutsk (Łuck)
Diocese of Lutsk and Zhytomyr (Łuck and Zytomierz)
8 August 1798	United	Diocese of Lutsk (Łuck)	Diocese of Lutsk and Zhytomyr (Łuck and Zytomierz)
Diocese of Lutsk, Zhytomyr, and Kamyanets-Podilskyi (Łuck, Zytomierz, and Kamienec)
1866	United	Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi (Kamieniec) Diocese of Lutsk and Zhytomyr (Łuck and Zytomierz)	Diocese of Lutsk, Zhytomyr, and Kamyanets-Podilskyi (Łuck, Zytomierz, and Kamienec)
22 September 1918	Split	Diocese of Lutsk, Zhytomyr, and Kamyanets-Podilskyi (Łuck, Zytomierz, and Kamienec)	Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi Diocese of Luceoria o Łuck e Zytomir o Zytomierz
Diocese of Luceoria o Łuck e Zytomir o Zytomierz
22 September 1918	Split	Diocese of Lutsk, Zhytomyr, and Kamyanets-Podilskyi (Łuck, Zytomierz, and Kamienec)	Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi Diocese of Luceoria o Łuck e Zytomir o Zytomierz
Diocese of Lutsk
28 October 1925	Split	Diocese of Luceoria o Łuck e Zytomir o Zytomierz	Diocese of Lutsk Diocese of Zytomir

Year Catholics Total Population Percent Catholic Diocesan Priests Religious Priests Total Priests Catholics Per Priest Permanent Deacons Male Religious Female Religious Parishes Source

Diocese of Lutsk

1950 3 3 0 ap1951

1997 30,000 2,254,000 1.3% 11 7 18 1,666 10 18 36 ap2000

2000 30,000 2,169,100 1.4% 10 6 16 1,875 6 17 36 ap2001

2001 30,000 2,169,000 1.4% 14 7 21 1,428 7 13 36 ap2002

2002 30,000 2,168,600 1.4% 12 7 19 1,578 7 13 36 ap2003

2003 30,000 2,167,500 1.4% 12 6 18 1,666 6 14 36 ap2004

2004 29,850 2,165,800 1.4% 15 7 22 1,356 7 12 36 ap2005

2013 25,000 2,211,000 1.1% 19 5 24 1,041 6 7 33 ap2014

2016 25,000 2,204,541 1.1% 19 11 30 833 12 8 35 ap2017

2019 30,000 2,192,608 1.4% 18 7 25 1,200 9 8 36 ap2020

2021 30,000 2,180,832 1.4% 20 5 25 1,200 1 7 7 36 ap2022

Year	Catholics	Total Population	Percent Catholic	Diocesan Priests	Religious Priests	Total Priests	Catholics Per Priest	Permanent Deacons	Male Religious	Female Religious	Parishes	Source
Diocese of Lutsk
1950				3		3	0					ap1951
1997	30,000	2,254,000	1.3%	11	7	18	1,666		10	18	36	ap2000
2000	30,000	2,169,100	1.4%	10	6	16	1,875		6	17	36	ap2001
2001	30,000	2,169,000	1.4%	14	7	21	1,428		7	13	36	ap2002
2002	30,000	2,168,600	1.4%	12	7	19	1,578		7	13	36	ap2003
2003	30,000	2,167,500	1.4%	12	6	18	1,666		6	14	36	ap2004
2004	29,850	2,165,800	1.4%	15	7	22	1,356		7	12	36	ap2005
2013	25,000	2,211,000	1.1%	19	5	24	1,041		6	7	33	ap2014
2016	25,000	2,204,541	1.1%	19	11	30	833		12	8	35	ap2017
2019	30,000	2,192,608	1.4%	18	7	25	1,200		9	8	36	ap2020
2021	30,000	2,180,832	1.4%	20	5	25	1,200	1	7	7	36	ap2022

Note: Any changes in boundaries over time are not indicated in the above table.

Affiliated Bishops, Living

Vitaliy Skomarovskyi (Bishop: 12 Apr 2014 - )
Stanislav Szyrokoradiuk, O.F.M. (Apostolic Administrator: 24 Jul 2012 to 12 Apr 2014)
Markijan Trofym’yak (Bishop: 25 Mar 1998 to 24 Jul 2012)

Affiliated Bishops, Deceased

Jan Andruszewicz † (Bishop: 13 Apr 1556 to 1567)
Stanisław Bedliński † (Auxiliary Bishop: 27 Sep 1683 to 1689)
Kaspar Jastrzębeic Borowski † (Bishop: 3 Jul 1848 to 15 Mar 1883)
Ludwik Bartłomiej Brynk † (Apostolic Administrator: 23 Feb 1872 to 19 Sep 1874)
Grzegorz Buczkowski, O.P. † (Bishop: 1413 to 1424)
Jerzy Chwalczewski (Palczewski) † (Bishop: 24 Apr 1536 to 1549)
Włodzimierz Czacki †
Jan Karol Czolański † (Auxiliary Bishop: 5 Jun 1662 to 10 Nov 1664)
Stanisław Czuryło † (Auxiliary Bishop: 22 Sep 1659 to 1661)
Zygmunt Czyżowski † (Bishop: 15 Dec 1666 to 1667)
Stanisław Kazimierz Dąmbski † (Bishop: 19 Oct 1676 to 20 Apr 1682)
Ignacy Maria Dubowski † (Priest: 25 Mar 1899; Bishop: 16 Oct 1916 to 1 Jun 1925)
St. Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński † (Deacon: 13 Feb 1855; Priest: 8 Sep 1855 to 6 Jan 1862)
Henryk Firlej † (Bishop: 30 May 1616 to 9 Jan 1617)
Andrzej Gembicki † (Bishop: 19 Apr 1638 to 1654)
Michał Godlewski † (Auxiliary Bishop: 21 Oct 1916 to 14 Jan 1949)
Stanisław Gomoliński † (Bishop: 30 Aug 1600 to 12 Dec 1602)
Achacy Grochowski † (Bishop: 6 Oct 1627 to 7 Jan 1633)
Ignacy Hołowiński †
Paweł Algimunt Holszański † (Bishop: 10 Sep 1507 to 15 Mar 1536)
Świętosław Jaroslai, O. Carm. † (Bishop: 12 May 1404)
Marian Franciszek Jaworski † (Apostolic Administrator: 18 May 1996 to 16 May 1998)
Jan Chryzostom Kaczkowski † (Auxiliary Bishop: 25 Jun 1781 to 24 Feb 1816)
Anton Karaś (Karosas) † (Auxiliary Bishop: 12 Nov 1906 to 7 Apr 1910)
Adam Kłokocki † (Auxiliary Bishop: 22 Sep 1795 to 8 Mar 1808)
Bolesław Hieronim Kłopotowski † (Auxiliary Bishop: 2 Aug 1897; Bishop: 14 Dec 1899 to 15 Apr 1901)
Franciszek Kobielski † (Auxiliary Bishop: 28 Jan 1760 to 1 May 1766)
Franciszek Antoni Kobielski † (Bishop: 30 Sep 1739 to 17 Jan 1755)
Kasper Kazimierz Kolumna Cieciszowski † (Bishop: 17 Nov 1798 to 23 Jun 1828)
Franciszek Komornicki † (Auxiliary Bishop: 28 Feb 1774 to 10 May 1780)
Szymon Marcin Kozłowski † (Bishop: 15 Mar 1883 to 14 Dec 1891)
Mikołaj Krasicki † (Auxiliary Bishop: 3 Oct 1639 to 1652)
Martin Krzeszowski † (Bishop: 4 Jul 1468 to 1483)
Jan Łesowicz † (Bishop: 24 Jan 1463 to 4 May 1468)
Bogusław Leszczyński † (Bishop: 11 Oct 1688 to 8 Sep 1691)
Tomasz Leżeński, O. Cist. † (Bishop: 5 Sep 1667 to 1675)
Andrzej Lipski † (Bishop: 20 Feb 1617 to 20 Nov 1623)
Jan Aleksander Lipski † (Bishop: 31 Mar 1732 to 19 Dec 1732)
Stanisław Łoza † (Auxiliary Bishop: 12 Jun 1634 to 1639)
Stanisław Łubieński † (Bishop: 26 Feb 1624 to 30 Aug 1627)
Cyril Lubowidzki † (Deacon: 22 Mar 1847; Priest: 31 Aug 1847; Auxiliary Bishop: 24 Mar 1884; Bishop: 2 Aug 1897 to 9 Jun 1898)
Bernard Maciejowski † (Bishop: 8 Jun 1587 to 23 May 1600)
Stefan Antonin Mdzewski, O.P. † (Auxiliary Bishop: 11 Jan 1690 to 13 Aug 1699)
Adam Stanisław Naruszewicz † (Bishop: 29 Nov 1790 to 6 Jul 1796)
Karol Antoni Niedziałkowski † (Bishop: 15 Apr 1901 to 7 Apr 1911)
Michał Piwnicki † (Coadjutor Bishop: 3 Jul 1826; Bishop: 23 Jun 1828 to 29 May 1845)
Jan Kanty Podhorodeński † (Auxiliary Bishop: 20 Aug 1804 to 4 Oct 1832)
Franciszek Mikołaj Prażmowski † (Bishop: 24 Sep 1696 to 3 Sep 1701)
Mikołaj Jan Prażmowski † (Bishop: 1 Dec 1659 to 11 Oct 1666)
Walerian Protosewicz † (Bishop: 27 May 1549 to 10 Apr 1556)
Joachim Henryk Przebendowski † (Bishop: 5 Oct 1716 to 21 May 1721)
Jan Pudełko (Andruszewicz) † (Bishop: 2 Dec 1491 to 18 Sep 1501)
Wenceslas Raczkowicz † (Bishop: 28 Sep 1459 to 1460)
Bogusław Radoszewski † (Bishop: 6 Jun 1633 to 1638)
Wojciech Radziwiłł † (Bishop: 30 May 1502 to 10 Sep 1507)
Ludwik Ignacy Riaucour † (Auxiliary Bishop: 3 Mar 1749 to Nov 1777)
Adam Franciszek Ksawery Rostkowski † (Auxiliary Bishop: 10 May 1700 to 5 Mar 1738)
Stefan Bogusław Rupniewski † (Bishop: 1 Dec 1721 to 21 Apr 1731)
Teofil Skalski † (Priest: 10 Jun 1900 to 1 May 1926)
Andrzej Spławski † (Bishop: 21 Dec 1425 to 1459)
Hieronim Stojnowski (Stroynowski) † (Coadjutor Bishop: 20 Aug 1804 to 26 Sep 1814)
Stanislaw Strawski † (Bishop: 9 Nov 1483 to 1491)
Adolf Piotr Szelążek † (Bishop: 14 Dec 1925 to 9 Feb 1950)
Hieronim Antoni Szeptycki † (Auxiliary Bishop: 20 Jul 1739 to 24 Sep 1759)
Jan Szyjkowski † (Auxiliary Bishop: 13 Nov 1775 to 18 Dec 1797)
Marcin Szyszkowski † (Coadjutor Bishop: 24 Nov 1603; Bishop: Jun 1604 to 18 Jul 1607)
Feliks Paweł Turski † (Bishop: 4 Mar 1771 to 29 Nov 1790)
Stanisław Udrzycki (Udrycki) † (Auxiliary Bishop: 4 Dec 1617 to Oct 1621)
Stefan Walczykiewicz † (Auxiliary Bishop: 20 Jul 1928 to 12 May 1940)
Wiktoryn Wierzbicki † (Bishop: 22 Aug 1567 to 10 Feb 1587)
Jan Stanisław Witwicki † (Bishop: 25 May 1682 to 24 Nov 1687)
Antoni Erazm Wołłowicz † (Bishop: 12 May 1755 to 6 Jul 1770)
Paweł Wołucki † (Bishop: 30 Jul 1607 to 19 May 1616)
Jan Stefan Wydżga † (Bishop: 14 May 1655 to 10 Nov 1659)
Aleksander Benedykt Wyhowski † (Bishop: 1 Oct 1703 to 28 Dec 1714)
Franciszek Zajerski † (Auxiliary Bishop: 21 Feb 1622 to 1631)
Andrzej Stanisław Załuski † (Bishop: 19 Nov 1736 to 20 Jul 1739)
Jan Chrzciciel Zamoyski, O.P. † (Bishop: 19 Oct 1654 to 1 Jan 1655)
Longinus Żarnowiecki † (Priest: 12 Mar 1866; Auxiliary Bishop: 7 Apr 1910 to 5 Oct 1915)
Kazimierz Zwierz † (Auxiliary Bishop: 10 Nov 1664 to 1682)
Izydor † (Bishop: 1375 to 1380)
Rugiano † (Bishop: 1380 to 1400)

Source(s)

Diocese of Lutsk (Łuck)
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 1, Page 314
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 2, Page 181
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 3, Page 229
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 4, Page 224, and Page 225
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 5, Page 248
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 266, and Page 267
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 7, Page 244
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 350, and Page 351
- Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Volume 1, Page 352, to Page 353

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