Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Przemyśl

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Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Przemyśl is the mother church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Peremyshl-Warsaw. It sits on Ulica Katedralna in Przemyśl, southern Poland. The church was built in the 17th century by the Jesuits and dedicated to St. Ignatius.

When Przemyśl came under Austrian rule and the Jesuits were suppressed in 1773, the church fell into ruin. In 1820 the Austrians closed it and turned it into a storehouse. Plans to restore it began in the late 19th century, and restoration was completed in 1903. In 1904 the church was reconsecrated as Sacred Heart of Jesus.

After World War II it served as a garrison church and also offered a weekly Byzantine Rite Mass for Ukrainian Catholics whose church had been closed by the communist government. In 1991 a controversy arose when the Latin Catholic Church, under the oversight of Pope John Paul II, decided to donate the building to the Greek Catholic community to serve as the cathedral of the Archeparchy of Peremyshl-Warsaw, replacing the Carmelite Church, which had returned to the Carmelites after the war. Local Polish nationalists blockaded the entrance and held a hunger strike, but the matter was settled after negotiations.