Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans
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How it came to be
When Bukovina became part of the Habsburg monarchy in 1782, the Orthodox bishop's seat moved to Chernivtsi, then Czernowitz. A residence built in haste soon rotted with damp; part of it collapsed in 1790 and the rest was pulled down, leaving the bishops to move between rented rooms for decades.
A design contest was announced in 1860, and the Czech architect Josef Hlávka was chosen. He studied the region's church buildings and combined Byzantine and Moorish styles. Work began in 1864 and, slowed by technical problems, his illness and quarrels with the authorities, was finished in 1882. The residence and chapel, the seminary and its church, and the monastery with its clock tower stand around a garden.
In November 1918 the union of Bukovina with Romania was voted here unanimously. A fire in 1942 destroyed the wooden ceiling of the Synod Hall, which was replaced in the 1950s. The buildings now belong to Chernivtsi University and were inscribed in 2011.
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