The Latin Cathedral in Lviv began as a church started by King Casimir III the Great. Piotr Polejowski led the Baroque rebuild from 1761 to 1776, with the sculptors Johann Georg Pinsel and Maciej Polejowski, and Archbishop Wacław Hieronim Sierakowski commissioned it. The infobox gives a 1360 founding and a 1405 consecration, but the text says building continued through the 15th century and the cathedral was consecrated in 1481.
The article says it was originally Gothic and rebuilt in the Baroque style, with a Gothic Revival presbytery added from 1892 to 1898. It names no materials or dimensions.
Cardinal Isidore celebrated a Mass for Christian unity there in 1440, and John II Casimir Vasa made the Lwów Oath there. Pope Pius X granted it minor basilica status in 1910. It stayed open under Soviet rule and is now an active Catholic metropolitan cathedral led by Archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki. The article gives no hours.
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