04.09.2007, [16:37] // news // RISU.ORG.UA
Ternopil, Ukraine – Several thousand documents in Ukrainian, Latin and Polish, part of which were authored by Metropolitan Mykhailo Levytskyi, Metropolitan Sylvester Sembranovych and Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), were discovered by builders when repairing the church chancellery attic of the Church of the Nativity of Jesus Christ in western Ukrainian Ternopil, as RISU’s correspondent Volodymyr Moroz reported on 31 August 2007.
The archive survived due to Hierarch Mefodii (Kudriakov), head of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC), who sheltered the ancient documents and gave them to the regional archive.
Some papers have ancient metropolitan and parochial stamps on them; many of them have Metropolitan Andrey’s signature. “Work on the parish archive can open the unknown pages and details of history of the church and of Ternopil,” considers Bohdan Khavarivskyi, director of the Ternopil Regional Archive.