St. George's Cathedral is the main Greek Catholic cathedral in Lviv, the main shrine of the UGCC. For a long time, the residence of the metropolitans of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was located on its territory. Located on St. Jura Square, 5.

The first temple was located on a mountain, later called Svyatoyurskaya, back in princely times. An Orthodox wooden church and a defensive monastery were built under Prince Lev Danilovich around 1280. After the destruction of both structures by the Polish king Casimir III (1340), a new Orthodox church was erected on this site in 1363-1437, a stone three-apse church-basilica in the Byzantine style.

Svyatoyura Cathedral was built in 1744-1770, it is considered a classic example of architecture of the Baroque period. Construction began in 1744 according to the project of Bogdan Meretin, after whose death the work was supervised by S. Fesinger (until 1764). Finishing work was completed in 1772. On the facade there are sculptures by Pinzel; the interior was decorated by sculptors S. Fesinger and M. Filevich, artists L. Dolinsky and Yu. Radivilovsky.
Opposite the cathedral of the cathedral are the chambers of the Greek Catholic Metropolitan (1772, architect K. Fesinger). Surrounding the chambers are capitular houses (19th century) and a fence with two gates (1765). A bell tower was built in the courtyard (1865).

From the time of its construction, the temple belonged to the Uniate Basilian order, and in 1816 a Greek Catholic archbishop was housed here. In 1946 the cathedral was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1990, the UGCC was returned. In April 1991, the head of the UGCC, Cardinal Miroslav-Ioann Lubachivsky, returned here. In August-September 1992, the remains of Patriarch Joseph Slipiy (1892-1984) were buried in the church, in the crypt of the cathedral next to the tombs of Metropolitans Andrei Sheptytsky (1865-1944) and Sylvester Sembratovich (1836-1898). Earlier, the remains of Prince Yaroslav Osmomysl were buried on the territory of the first church on Svyatoyurskaya Mountain.