Saints Borys and Hlib Church, Shumliany

Saints Borys and Hlib Church (Ukrainian: Церква Святих Мучеників Бориса і Гліба) is a parish of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Shumliany, Saranchuky rural hromada, Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. It is an architectural monument of national importance.^[1]

Saints Borys and Hlib church
Церква Святих Мучеників Бориса і Гліба
Church of the OCU
Religion
Affiliation	Orthodox Church of Ukraine
Location
Location	Shumliany, Saranchuky rural hromada, Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine
Geographic coordinates	49°17′19″N 24°52′26″E
Architecture
Completed	1711

History

An old oak church is located on top of a hill in the village of Shumliany. Numbers carved into the rafters indicate that the construction lasted from 1696 to 1711. Legends say that there was a monastery near the village at that time. Not far away in the forest there is a "Priest's Well". The stone cross near the church is a tombstone to Mrs. Shumlianska, the mother of Lviv Bishop Yosyf Shumlyansky.^[2]

Near the cross in the churchyard is a statue of the Mother of God, built in 1924. Church rituals are performed there, such as: the blessing of water, the blessing on Easter, and the blessing of vegetables on Savior's Day, while young people lead round dances and sing haiivky. There is a custom in the village to light fires near the church at night on Good Friday.^[2]

Priests

• Yoachhym^[2]
• Yanovych^[2]
• Hryhorii Levytskyi (1828–1855)^[2]
• Mykola Rybak (1856–1900)^[2]
• Lev Hrynevych (1901–1911)^[2]
• Petro Sterniuk (1911–1914)^[2]
• Yulian Dudkevych (1914–1924)^[2]
• Kornelii Kupetskyi (1924–1931)^[2]
• Mykola Starukh (1931–1940)^[2]
• Ivan Didukh (1940–1945)^[2]
• Petro Babuniak (1945–1947)^[2]
• Petro Seneta (1947–1949)^[2]
• Romylo Bohdanets (1949–1952)^[2]
• Ivan Voloshyn (1953–1966)^[2]
• Myron Martseliuk (1966–1969)^[2]
• Ivan Hura (1970–1971)^[2]
• Ivan Shevchuk (1972–1979)^[2]
• Ivan Yavorskyi (1979–1982)^[2]
• Vasyl Hanyshevskyi (1982–1984)^[2]
• Petro Fedav (1984–1985)^[2]
• Stepan Bilchuk (1985–1994)^[2]
• Yurii Terliuk (1994–1995)^[2]
• Petro Myskiv (November 1996–?)^[2]
• Volodymyr Punka (incumbent)^[2]