Bilobozhnytsia

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

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

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. (in Ukrainian) Б. Мельничук, В. Уніят, М. Федечко, Білобожниця // Ternopil region. 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.
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