Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral, Lutsk

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Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral
Cathedral Church of Paul and Peter the Apostles
Style		Renaissance (primary), Classicism (secondary)
Years built	1616–1640
Specifications
Height	138f (42m)
Number of towers	2
Administration
Diocese	Lutsk
Clergy
Bishop(s)	Marcjan Trofimiak

The Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral and its Jesuit college are national

, the college part of the National university of Food Technologies.

History

The Society of Jesus mission in Lutsk was established in the first decade of the 17th century. King

Greek Cross

. The construction of the college was completed in the middle of the 17th century. The architect was Benedetto Molli.

Initially 150 students studied at the college. Later there were probably more than 300.

.

In the 1620s and 1630s, there were conflicts between Jesuits and members of the Lutsk Eastern Orthodox church. Some clashes and court cases are known. In 1627–1628 and 1639, Jesuit students attacked orthodox monks. Wojteh Helpovski tried to drown Serapion, a member of the orthodox fellowship. College students killed the monk Serapion.

The Jesuit church was damaged in a fire on 14 June 1724. Architect Pawel Gizycki radically reconstructed the building over a six-year period, giving the building a new appearance. New walls were built around the old church and two towers were added near the corners of new walls. The west tower was

cathedral on the same street was destroyed by fire and dismantled. The former Jesuit church then became Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral.

The

for various reasons. Thus many Catholic orders were turned back from empire territory. Many Catholic monasteries and churches were appealed during the 19th century. Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral was the only active Catholic church in Lutsk.

In 1946, the

was destroyed. The church used to be The Museum of Atheism in the 1980s.

The cathedral was restored after the dissolution of the USSR. A new German organ was installed in 1999. Marcjan Trofimiak became a bishop the following year.

Architecture

The

and tiled roofs. The ruins of the old castle remain close to the south corner of the college. They consist of part of the wall and the 15th-century Czartoryski.

The interior of church is decorated with paintings, epitaphs, commemorative plaques, old furniture, sculptures, reliefs, monograms, and etchings. There are very few paintings in the sacristy and chapel. Some paintings were restored and fitted to a niche in the wall. The oldest were completed in the 18th century. Some of them were moved from other churches. A few of the paintings were specifically prepared for the church. The oldest is by K. Willani, painted in 1801. The few paintings in sacristy show the Catholic churches of Lutsk: Dominican, Trinitarian, Bernardine and Carmelitan.

The former Jesuit church is the main church in the diocese of Lutsk maintaining

is open for tourists and can be accessed from behind the square tower.

Gallery

• 
  Saint Paul
• 
  Napoleon Orda
• 
  Collegium

See also

• List of Jesuit sites

Sources

• Mieczysław Orłowicz, Ilustrowany przewodnik po Wołyniu. Łuck 1929
• Grzegorz Rąkowski, Przewodnik po Zachodniej Ukrainie, część I, Wołyń
• Adam Wojnicz. Łuck na Wołyniu. Łuck, 1922, s. 52-53
• Łuck w Słowniku geograficznym Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, t. 1, pod red. F. Sulimirskiego, B. Chlebowskiego, W. Walewskiego, t. 5, 1884, s. 778—792
• Stecki. Łuck starożytny i dzisiejszy, Kraków, 1876.
• Луцьк. Історико-архітектурний нарис. Б.Колосок, Р.Метельницький — Київ, 1990. — с.95-100