SHORT HISTORICAL NOTE ON PIDVYSOKE:

PIDVYSOKE VILLAGE AND CHURCH DESCRIPTION:

Pidvysoke is a small village in western part of Ukraine and has about 400 inhabitants. It is located in Berezhany (Berezany / Brzezany) district of Ternopil region (historic area of Halychyna or Galicia in English) about 18 km south west from town Berezhany and about 14 km east from town Rohatyn (Rogatin / Rohatin The village si naerly merged with surrounding villages such as Lopushna /Lopuszna, Demnya /Demnai and Verkhnia Lypytsya (Lipica Gorna/ Verkhnyaya Lipitsa) .

Pidvysoke used to be a small town in early times and had its own castle even, out of which we had only a castle hill left, with a cross installed on the top of it. Pidvysoke Church was built as Roman Catholic Church to serve local Polish inhabitants who lived in the village along with some Ukrainians and Jews. In 1939 Pidvysoke and surrounding areas (after the pact of Molotov - Ribentropp) were taken by Soviet armies and incorporated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialsit republic. Most of Pidvysoke Poles were resettled to present-day Poland lands. Thus, now only Ukrainians remained and the village is exclusively Ukrainian. Church was devastated and closed down during Soviet times but with the collapse of the Soviet Union and Ukraine independence, the church was rennovated and restored and now it serves as Greek Catholic church for local Ukrainians who are mostly Greek Catholics with very few Ukrainian Orthodox. Orthodox Church is in the mentioned above nearby village of Verkhnya Lypytsya.

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