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Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine's cultural hub, preserves Eastern Catholicism through the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv (1958), serving 4–5 million UGCC faithful with Byzantine Rite liturgies. Centered on St. George's Cathedral (UNESCO site), it survived Soviet suppression (1946–1991), fostering ecumenism and seminaries amid Ukraine's 10% Catholic minority (4 million).