Pope Benedict XV
- Inventory number:
- Ск-184
- Author:
- Unknown
- Creation Date:
- 20th century
- Provenance:
- Lviv Historical Museum
- Technique:
- carving, electroplating
- Size:
- 55 x 42.5 cm
- Material:
- wood, papier-mâché
- Type of object:
- Sculpture, Bas-relief
- Subject:
- Christianity
Benedict XV (before consecration - Jacopo Marquis de la Chiesa; 1854 - 1922) - Pope from 1914 to 1922. Favored the idea of reviving Ukrainian statehood; maintained contact with Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytski. He founded the Congregation for the Affairs of the Eastern Churches and the Pontifical Institute of the East in Rome.
