The Bishop's Palace was built from a former Minorite monastery. Its history began with the conversion of the town hospital and poorhouse into a new monastery, which was acquired by the Minorites in 1673. The activity of the Minorites in Pre\u0161ov was terminated by the decree of Emperor Joseph II of 12 July 1787, by which the monastery was dissolved, in spite of the pleas of the town magistrate and the Bishop of Jagiellon to the monarch himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1791, the seat of the Greek-Catholic vicariate was moved from Ko\u0161ice to Pre\u0161ov to the premises of the former Minorite monastery.On 22 September 1818, Pope Pius VII issued the bull Relata semper, establishing the Greek-Catholic bishopric in Pre\u0161ov. The entire complex of the former monastery was then assigned to the first bishop of the newly established Pre\u0161ov diocese, Gregor Tarkovi\u010d, in 1821. In 1848, Jozef Gaganec, the second bishop of Pre\u0161ov, had the residence extensively rebuilt, resulting in the present two-storey palace building with a classical fa\u00e7ade. Above the main entrance there was a large triangular shield (tympanum) with the inscription \u201eHis Majesty Ferdinand V, King of Hungary, by grace built 1848\u201c<\/strong>. Above the inscription there is an embossed coat of arms of the Greek-Catholic bishopric encircled by a bishop's chain and a cross fixed on it. The central part of the building is dominated by a large dome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At present, the palace is the seat of the Greek-Catholic Archbishopric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo: OOCR Regi\u00f3n \u0160ari\u0161, pis.sk, grtkapo.sk, Jozef Kotuli\u010d<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":319,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"kategoria":[23],"lokalita":[17],"class_list":["post-427","pamiatka","type-pamiatka","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategoria-kastiele-a-kurie","lokalita-mesto-presov"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n