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Saints Peter and Paul Church, Podil

Kyiv, Ukraine · built 1744

The Saints Peter and Paul Church (Petropavlivska tserkva), also called Catholic Cathedral of St. Sophia (Polish: Katedra św. Zofii w Kijowie, Latin: Sancta Sophia, Capitulo et Canonicis Cathedralis Ecclesiae Kioviencis was a formerly Catholic and then Russian Orthodox cathedral in the Podil district in Kyiv, Ukraine. Built at the end of the 17th century, it was the oldest and most historical Latin cathedral in Kyiv, the seat of the Bishop of the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Kyiv which was part of the metropolis of Lviv since 1412. It was later transformed into an Orthodox church, and then destroyed in 1935 by the Soviet regime,

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