Ukrainian Catholic University

The Ukrainian Catholic University (Ukrainian: Український католицький університет, romanized: Ukrainskyi katolytskyi universytet) is a Catholic university in Lviv, Ukraine, affiliated with the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) was the first Catholic university to open on the territory of the former Soviet Union. The university frequently has the highest external independent evaluation scores of any Ukrainian university.

The Ukrainian Catholic University is the successor to the Greek Catholic Theological Academy, which was created in 1928 by metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky in the city of Lviv, then under the Second Polish Republic. The academy's first rector was Josyf Slipyj. In 1994, the original school was recreated under the name of the Lviv Theological Academy, and on 28 June 2002, the Ukrainian Catholic University was formally refounded.