Conversion of Chełm Eparchy
| History of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
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History of Christianity in Ukraine Eastern Catholic Churches |
| Ruthenian Uniate Church to forced dissolution in Soviet Union |
| 1595 Union of Brest |
| 1806 transfer of Metropolitan See from Kyiv to Lemberg |
| 1839 Synod of Polotsk |
| 1875 Conversion of Chełm Eparchy |
| 1907 First diaspora bishop |
| 1946 Synod of Lviv |
| Council for Religious Affairs |
| Anti-Catholicism in the Soviet Union |
| Eastern Catholic victims of Soviet persecutions |
| Church in Exile |
| 1963 Title of Major Archbishop conferred |
| Since re-legalization in Ukraine |
| 1991 return of exiled priests and bishops to Lviv |
| 2005 transfer of See from Lviv to Kyiv |
The Conversion of Chełm Eparchy was the forced conversion of the Eparchy of Chełm–Belz that took place between January and May 1875. It was the last eparchy of the Ruthenian Uniate Church that remained on the territory of the Russian Empire following the partitions of Poland. The episcopal seat of the eparchy was in the city of Chełm (Kholm) in Congress Poland. Adherents and clergy were forced to join the Russian Orthodox Church.