 |
| Part of a series on |
| Persecutions of the Catholic Church |
|---|
 Catholicism portal |
 |
| History of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
|---|
|
History of Christianity in Ukraine Eastern Catholic Churches |
| Ruthenian Uniate Church to forced dissolution in Soviet Union |
| 1595 Union of Brest |
| 1806 transfer of Metropolitan See from Kyiv to Lemberg |
| 1839 Synod of Polotsk |
| 1875 Conversion of Chełm Eparchy |
| 1907 First diaspora bishop |
| 1946 Synod of Lviv |
| Council for Religious Affairs |
| Anti-Catholicism in the Soviet Union |
| Eastern Catholic victims of Soviet persecutions |
| Church in Exile |
| 1963 Title of Major Archbishop conferred |
| Since re-legalization in Ukraine |
| 1991 return of exiled priests and bishops to Lviv |
| 2005 transfer of See from Lviv to Kyiv |
Eastern Catholic victims of Soviet persecutions include bishops and others among the tens of thousands of victims of Soviet persecutions from 1918 to approximately 1980, under the state ideology of Marxist–Leninist atheism.