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Jesuit College(Ivano-Frankivsk)

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In 1669, the grandfather of Stanislaviv, Andrzej Potocki, founded in the city a "colony" of the Krakow Academy, commonly called "academy", which was taken care of by the capitals of the Roman Catholic Church.

Juzef Potocki, unlike his father Andrzej, was an admirer of the Jesuit order and set himself the goal of creating a college. This is evidenced by the information stored in the archives of the law "Erizioiae asi Sepegalib" ("Letters to Generals"). To this end, he addressed a letter dated in Stanislaviv on November 28, 1714, to the General of the Tamburini Order with a request to send Jesuit fathers to Stanislaviv to strengthen the Christian faith, among whom he wanted to see the Polish Jesuit Msgr. Tomasz Zalenski (in particular, he helped Hetman Pylyp Orlyk to contact the family that lived in the city), who soon - in early 1715 - settled in the Stanislav as a chaplain of the voivode Juzef Potocki.
The governor gave the Jesuits who arrived the land near the Tysmenytsia Gate, where the Potocki wooden castle was once located. Soon they began to build a church there. At the same time, the Jesuits restored the wooden building of the former academy, and in September 1716 several classes were solemnly opened in it. However, due to lack of funds, training was conducted only in the lower classes: infima, grammar and syntax. Only the next year two higher classes were opened - poetry and rhetoric, and a year later a two-year course of philosophy was created at the expense of the royal colonel Pavel Vitoslavsky, who provided 6000 zlotys for this cause. The new home of the Jesuits was called the residence and was subordinated to the College of St. Peter in Lviv.
In the wooden house that preceded the stone Jesuit college, joint services were held since 1717. The first of them took place during the beatification of Bl. Francis. On that day, the altar was decorated with damask with the coats of arms of France, Poland, Rus, Galician land and the Potocki house.
In 1717 at the Galician Sejm the nobility of Pokuttya adopted a special tax in favor of this school. In 1726, Juzef Potocki's wife Victoria of Leszczynski opened the departments of French and German.
In the 1730s, the construction of a stone college began, which lasted more than 10 years. In 1744, the collegium was opened in a brick building.
In Soviet times, the church was protected as an architectural monument of the Ukrainian SSR.

The building is an architectural monument built in 1744. It is located on the central square - Sheptytsky Square, and is considered the oldest educational building in the city. The collegiate of the Jesuit order is oriented with the altar to the west, it faces Sheptytsky Square with the northern side facade. This architectural monument in the plan is an elongated rectangle. The main facade is designed in classicism. The windows and doors are framed with overhead platbands - platbands. The second floor windows are surrounded by rectangular window sill niches. The northern and western facades are designed without decoration.

After the Carpathian region was ceded to Austria, the Austrian government in 1773 "abolished" (banned the activities) of the Jesuit order, the college continued to operate without the care of the fathers. On November 1, 1784, a state gymnasium began to operate in its premises (such prominent figures as Ivan Vahylevych - Ukrainian writer, one of the organizers of the "Russian Trinity", and Mykhailo Yatskiv - Ukrainian writer, activist of the "Young Muse" - studied there).

From the middle of the XIX century the city became the seat of Greek Catholic bishops, who began the restoration of the church. After the restoration, the Jesuit church became the Holy Resurrection Cathedral. The restoration and decoration of the church took place thanks to the financial assistance of Bishop A. Sheptytsky.

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