Exaltation of the Holy Cross Greek Catholic Cathedral
Ужгородський греко-католицький Катедральний Собор
Exaltation of the Holy Cross Greek Catholic Cathedral
Ужгородський греко-католицький Катедральний Собор
Address:
Zamkovi Skhody St, 1
Historical Hungarian county:
Ung
GPS coordinates:
48.622776, 22.302216
History
Drugeth János X moved the Jesuits from Homonna to Ungvár and he built the church and the monastery for them. The Baroque church was built in 1646 from the donation of the Drugeth family. In 1773 the Jesuit Order was dissolved by Pope Clement XIV. Then, the Greek Catholic Bishop of Munkács, Bacsinszky András, asked Empress Maria Theresia to move the bishopric to Ungvár, and to hand them over the former Jesuit church and college. The Greek Catholics took over the buildings in 1775, and, on the order of the monarch, architect Franz Anton Hillebrandt carried out alterations to the buildings. It was consecrated in 1780.
It was renovated in 1848 in Neoclassical style according to the plans of Fábri László. Its facade gained its final form between 1876-1877 according to the plans of the Italian architect Lucio Fabry.
The ceiling and side walls are decorated with frescoes painted in 1939 by the Hungarian painter Boksay József.
In 1945, the Soviets gave the church to the Russian Orthodox Church after they banned the Greek Catholic Church. In 1991, with the legalization of the Greek Catholic Church, it was reclaimed by the Greek Catholics and it belongs to the Diocese of Munkács (seated in Ungvár).
The relics of the martyr bishop Blessed Romzsa Tódor are kept in the cathedral.
Romzsa Tódor was ordained an auxiliary bishop in the cathedral of Ungvár on September 21, 1944, which had been part of Hungary again since 1939. By the time of the Soviet occupation, he was practically at the head of the diocese. He rejected Soviet efforts to abolish the Greek Catholic Church and merge it into the Russian Orthodox Church.
Due to his resistance, Stalin allowed his secret assassination at Khrushchev's request in 1947.
General Pavel Sudoplatov was entrusted with the supervision of the operation, who also organized the assassination of Trotsky.
The bishop was on his way home from the consecration of the church in Léka in his horse-drawn carriage, which was run over by a military truck and the wounded were beaten half to death with iron rods.
The action was disrupted by a post truck, so the bishop could be taken to the hospital in Munkács, where a famous surgeon saved his life.
He was then killed with a lethal curare injection (American arrow poison) by an agent disguised as a hospital cleaner during a pretended medical examination carried out by a cooperating doctor by night.
The beatification process was carried out by Pope John Paul II on the occasion of his visit in Ungvár on June 7, 2001. The relics containing his earthly remains were solemnly placed in June 2003 in the side altar of the Holy Cross in the cathedral of Ungvár.
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