Exaltation of the Holy Cross Church, Shvaikivtsi

Exaltation of the Holy Cross Church (Церква Воздвиження Чесного Хреста Господнього) Greek Catholic Parish Church (UGCC) in Shvaikivtsi of the Zavodske settlement hromada of the Chortkiv Raion of the Ternopil Oblast.

History
The first written mention of the parish, then still Orthodox and subordinate to the Patriarchate of Constantinople, dates back to the XI-XIII centuries.

1732—1733 — the general visit of the parish was made by Fr. Sylvester Malskyi, OSBM.

1734 — the temple was built. The donors are parishioners of the village of Shvaikivtsi.

1758 — the church is rebuilt (blessing date unknown). On November 20 of the same year, Fr. Anthonii Onufrievych.

XVIII—1946 — the parish was Greek Catholic. From 1946 to 1957 the parish and the church belonged to the ROC.

1958—1989 — the church was closed by the Soviet authorities.

1989—1990 — the parish and the church again belonged to the ROC.

1990 — The church returns to the UGCC. As the parish and the church are subsidiaries, priests from the parish of the village of Hadynkivtsi served here.

2004 - on the Independence Day of Ukraine, the chapel of All Saints of the Ukrainian people was consecrated.

On the territory of the village there is a monument to St. Florian - the guardian, built at the expense of Mr. Rodorf in 1864, as well as a monument to the Blessed Martyr Hieromonk Vitalii Bairak, OSBM, consecrated by Bishop Irynei Bilyk.

The parish includes all the peasants of which there are 150 people.

The altar fraternity operates at the church. Catechesis in the church is conducted by a priest.

Abbots

 * at. Ivan Melchan (1718—1743),
 * at. Litinskyi,
 * at. Stefan Savichevskyi,
 * at. Makar Savichevskyi (1784-1817),
 * at. Mykhailo Struminskyi,
 * at. Yakiv Shankovskyi,
 * at. Ivan Senatovych (1838-1840),
 * at. Semen Lukasevych (1840-1842),
 * at. Oleksii Navrotskyi (1842-1843),
 * at. Fylyp Holinatyi (1843-1844, 1845-1847),
 * at. Dmytro Khodorovskyi (1844-1845),
 * at. Mykola Chaplinskyi (1847-1848),
 * at. Yakiv Horbachevskyi (1848-1850),
 * at. Tom Boratynskyi (1850-1855),
 * at. Ivan Kornii (1855-1890),
 * at. Klyment Sonevytskyi (1891-1928),
 * at. Dean Vasyl Kvik (since 1990).