Klymentiy Sheptytsky
Klymentiy Sheptytsky (Polish: Klemens Szeptycki, Ukrainian: Климентій Шептицький; 17 November 1869 – 1 May 1951), was an archimandrite of the Order of Studite monks of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and was a hieromartyr. Klymentiy has been beatified by the Catholic Church, as well as awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations by the State of Israel for saving Jewish lives during the Holocaust in Ukraine. As effective leader of his Church, he was arrested and died a political prisoner of the Soviet Union in the Gulag.
Klymentiy Sheptytsky | |
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Szeptycki in 1930s | |
| Hieromartyr | |
| Born | 17 November 1869 Prylbychi, Lviv Oblast, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Austro-Hungary |
| Died | 1 May 1951 (aged 81) Vladimir Central Prison, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Russian Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 27 June 2001, Lviv, Ukraine, by Pope John Paul II |
| Feast | 1 May |
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