Bilobozhnytsia

Bilobozhnytsia
Білобожниця
Saints Peter and Paul church
Bilobozhnytsia
Location in Ternopil Oblast
Bilobozhnytsia
Bilobozhnytsia (Ternopil Oblast)
Coordinates: 49°2′58″N 25°40′53″E / 49.04944°N 25.68139°E / 49.04944; 25.68139
Country Ukraine
Oblast Ternopil Oblast
RaionChortkiv Raion
HromadaBilobozhnytsia Hromada
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
48530

Bilobozhnytsia (Ukrainian: Білобожниця) is a village in Ukraine, Ternopil Oblast, Chortkiv Raion, Bilobozhnytsia rural hromada.[1]

History

The first written mention dates from 1532.[2]

Religion

  • Church of the Transfiguration (OCU, 1901, brick, rebuilt in 1991)[2]
  • Church of the Transfiguration (UGCC, 2008)[2]
  • Saints Peter and Paul church (RCC, 2001)[2]

People

  • Mykhailo Borysykevych (1848–1899), Ukrainian ophthalmologist, Doctor of Medicine[2]
  • Taras Senkiv (born 1960), Eparchial Bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stryi[2]

References

  1. ^ Білобожницька територіальна громада, Децентралізація
  2. ^ a b c d e f (in Ukrainian) Б. Мельничук, В. Уніят, М. Федечко, Білобожниця // Ternopil Oblast. History of cities and villages: in 3 v. / Ternopil: "Terno-graph", 2014, V. 3: М—Ш, S. 454—497. — ISBN 978-966-457-246-7.