Bóbrka Ukraine
Roman Catholic
The first church was built in 1402; it was repeatedly destroyed along with the village by the Turks and Tators from the end of the 1400s until mid 16th century. It was restored in 1546o-1547 and again destroyed in 1623 and the vicars taken into captivity. It was taken into the college of mansionaries of the Lviv Cathedral in 1628. The brick church probably dates from the 1630s and 1640s when the Lviv archbishops owned the city. The church had five altars: Mother of God Immaculate, St. Joseph, St. Nicholas, St. Anna, and St. Anthony of Padua. The church was consecrated in 1771. The church was expanded, beginning in 1914, but not complete until 1921 because of World War I. In 1944 the priests left for Poland, taking the valuable church property. Soviet authorities closed the church in 1962, using it as a school sports hall. It was partially restored following a fire in 1984. The church was teturned and reconsecrated in 1989. The lost altars were replaced with three from the Church of the Visitation of Elizabeth by the Blessed Virgin Mary in Tadany.