[1] After long mediation, Sigismund I re-established the eparchy in mid-1539, moving its see to Lviv.

[1] Following the Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the end of the 18th century, most lands fell under Russian rule.

After the collapse of the Iron Curtain in 1989, the Church began to restore canonical regularity.

[1] On 19 August 1990 Archbishop Volodymyr (Sternyuk) served the first Hierarchical Divine Liturgy in the return to the church St. George's Cathedral, Lviv.

In 1992 the church synod adopted decision to create more eparchies out of the archeparchy of Lviv and on 12 July 1993 it was approved by the Pope.

In December 2004, he became an auxiliary bishop of the newly erected Ukrainian Catholic Major Archeparchy of Kyiv-Halych.