Church of the Holy Great Martyr George the Victorious - a church in Lviv. The only example of architecture in Lviv in the neo-Byzantine (Byzantine-Romanesque) style, typical for Bukovina. Since 1992, it has been the cathedral church of the Lviv diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (since other churches were taken over by other church organizations). Address: st. Korolenko, 3.
The construction of the Church of St. George in Lviv was carried out by the Bukovina Consistory of the Romanian Orthodox Church, which was in charge of the affairs of the entire Orthodox Church in Galicia during the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1856, on Franciscanskaya (now Korolenko) Street, she bought a large plot of land with two houses near the former Franciscan monastery. In 1895, the project for the construction of an Orthodox church and a church house was approved by the architect Gustav Sachs from Vienna. By special order of the Austrian authorities, it was ordered to rename the Church of the Holy Trinity under construction into the Church of St. George; this was done in order not to remind of the times when there was an Orthodox church of the Holy Trinity in Lviv and to emphasize the low status of the Orthodox church compared to the Greek Catholic Cathedral of St. George (St. George).
On September 1, 1897, the cornerstone for the temple was laid and its construction began. In the same year, 1897, a building committee was organized, which included Mikhail Grushevsky, a professor at Lviv University, a well-known Ukrainian historian, and Osip Monchalovsky, a well-known Galician-Russian journalist. Construction from laying the foundation to its completion was led by the architect Vincent Ravsky. The consecration of the temple took place on October 14, 1901. The interior decoration of the church of St. George was made by Viennese and local Lviv craftsmen. Colored stained-glass windows in a metal frame for the temple were made and installed by the Viennese company Tiroler Glasmalerei Anstalt. The same company made a mosaic insert above the main entrance. The four-tiered iconostasis was installed by Viennese craftsmen: carpentry and carving of the iconostasis were made by Karl Vormund, all icons were painted by Friedrich von Schiller. Sketches for polychromy, as well as for the entire decoration of the interior, were made by the Viennese artist Karl Jobst, the author of the building project, Gustav Sachs, personally supervised the skillful design. The bells for the temple were cast by the firm of Karl Schwabe. Of the seven bells, four had an inscription in Romanian, three in Ukrainian.
Divine services were held in the church in Church Slavonic and Romanian, one of the priests was the rector of the church and the parish, and the other was a military priest for the Orthodox soldiers of the Lvov garrison. The temple was constantly visited by the Lvov Russian consul with his family and a small number of local Orthodox of different nationalities. The parishioners were monitored by the Austrian police, as the authorities were worried about the spread of Orthodoxy.
In 1902, two commemorative tables were installed in the temple, which was insisted on by the church leadership in Chernivtsi. The first - in memory of the 50th anniversary of the accession to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph - in Romanian, German and Russian; the second - after the consecration of the temple - in Romanian and Russian. Both tables were made of marble by the Lvov sculptor Ludwig Tyrovich, who had previously made a stone throne in the temple. The text of the table (south side) (modern spelling, Russian): “This is St. Church of St. The Great Martyr George was founded, with the diligence of the souls of pastors, professors of the Orthodox faith, in Lvov on September 22 (Octomb 4), 1897, built by the dependency of the Bukovina Orthodox Church Fund and consecrated with the blessing of His Eminence, Metropolitan Arkady Chuperkovich, His Rev. Fr. Archimandrite Mitrofor, Miron Kalichesko, October 14/27, 1901. Blessed peace and eternal memory to the creators and followers of the Fund.” The text of the table (north side) (modern spelling, Russian): "In memory of the 50th anniversary of the accession to the throne of our all-beloved Caesar Franz Joseph I." Above the same table was a bas-relief of the emperor; now only its foundation is visible.
The temple was built in the Romano-Byzantine style, has five domes. During the construction, special firing red brick and hewn white stone, brought from the Ternopil region, were used. The basis of the composition of the temple is a Greek cross. The central volume of the church is crowned with a Byzantine dome. The main facade is decorated with towers that serve as bell towers. According to the architectural solution, the church of St. George resembles a seminary church in the residence of the Chernivtsi Metropolitan (the author of the project is Joseph Glavnya). A two-story church house adjoining the church was built in a similar construction technique. The Church of St. George the Victorious and the church house form a single ensemble and are recognized as one of the best examples of the historicism style in the sacral architecture of Ukraine.

As early as 1862, the Austrian government gave the future Orthodox church "the right of publicity (citizenship)", but never recognized the right of the parish. However, the temple kept registers of all Orthodox born in Galicia.
After the collapse of Austria-Hungary, the temple with all its property was administered by the Romanian Religious Foundation, and then, as a result of the actions of parishioners and courts, it came under the jurisdiction of the Polish government, and then the Polish Orthodox Church. Since 1924, the temple belonged to the Russian Orthodox parish, most of whose parishioners were Galician Russophiles (including the headman of the parish Semyon Bendasyuk), and some were emigrants from Russia. After the end of World War II, it was under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church, since 1990 it has belonged to its self-governing part, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).
Particles of the relics of the Holy Great Martyr Barbara, the Reverend Fathers of the Kiev Caves, the Monk Job (abbot of Pochaev), Joasaph of Belgorod, Kuksha of Odessa are preserved in the temple. The temple also contains a copy of the Tikhvin-Tear-Gothing icon, painted and consecrated on Mount Athos, which was transferred from the Russian hermits to the Russian Imperial Consulate in Lvov. The icon located in the church was recognized as miraculous by the decision of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) in 1997.
Since 1978, Protopresbyter Vasily Ostashevsky has been the rector of the Church of the Holy Great Martyr George the Victorious (he passed away to the Lord on May 15, 2007). Since 1992, as before, it has become a cathedral and now the only Russian Orthodox church in Lviv. Since the same year, the Bishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) Augustine (Markevich) has been at the Lviv cathedra. Until the beginning of 2005, Archpriest Andrey Tkachev, the host of television programs on the all-Ukrainian TV channel Kievskaya Rus, served in the church.
The church houses the editorial office of the diocesan newspaper "The Light of Orthodoxy", the Higher Theological Courses, a missionary department, a youth Orthodox brotherhood, and a library function.

The service is performed daily, the language of the service is Church Slavonic; sermons are delivered in Russian and Ukrainian. The territory of the temple adjoins the building of the Lviv Russian Cultural Center named after. Pushkin.