Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Przemyśl

The church was built in the 17th century by the Jesuit order and dedicated to St. Ignatius.

In 1991 the church was subject of a controversy, when the Latin Catholic Church (with personal oversight by pope John Paul II) decided to donate the building to the Greek Catholic population in Przemyśl, to serve as the cathedral of the Archeparchy of Peremyshl-Warsaw in place of the Carmelite Church, which after World War II has returned to the Carmelites.

After this decision, local Polish nationalists blockaded the entrance to the Greek Catholics and organized a hunger strike.

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