The Synod of Lviv or the Council of Lviv was a March 1946 synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church that declared the 1596 Union of Brest to be annulled, thereby unifying the church with the Russia
Havriyl Kostelnyk [uk], chairman of the Sponsoring Group and the UGCC priest who oversaw the synod
St. George's Cathedral, Lviv (pictured here in 1976) was the site of the synod
The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the USSR refers to the period in its history between 1939 and 1991, when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union.
20th century martyrs of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church pictured in a church in Vinnytsia - fot. Ivonna Nowicka