Lviv Dormition Brotherhood

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Lviv Dormition Brotherhood (

The organization possessed stauropegion rights and oversaw not only activities of its secular members, but also clergy and sometimes bishops. Members of any estate had a chance to join the brotherhood. Money contributed to the society were used to fund Monastery and church of St. Onuphrius and Dormition Church. With the help of the brotherhood, Lviv Orthodox eparchy which was liquidated by the Kingdom of Poland after annexation of Galicia (part of Galicia–Volhynia Wars) was revived in 1539.

Lviv Dormition Brotherhood had its own publishing house, operated hospitals, orphanages, elderly homes and provided other community services. It also founded a school in 1585 and campaigned against clerics who neglect their religious duties.^[3] It was also a military force that fought the Polish and Latin influences although it capitulated to the latter, subsequently joining Unia or the Eastern Catholic Churches in the eighteenth century.^[2]

Its first recorded organizational statute was approved by Patriarch of Antioch Joachim VI in 1586.

In 1708 it finally accepted the Union of Brest.

Following the partitions of Poland, in 1788 the Austrian authorities liquidated the organizations which was reformed into the Stauropegion Institute.

In 1989 Lviv Dormition Brotherhood was revived on the efforts of

• Monastery and church of St. Onuphrius, Lviv
• Ivan Fyodorov (printer), Konstanty Korniakt

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