Blessed Yosafat Kotsylovskyi
Also known as
• Josaphat Kocylovskyj
• Josaphat Kotsylovsky
Additional Memorial
27 June as one of the Martyrs Killed Under Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe
Profile
Greek Catholic. Studied theology in Rome, graduating in 1907. Ordained on 9 October 1907. Vice-rector and professor of theology at the Stanislaviv, Ukraine seminary. Entered the Basilian novitiate on 2 October 1911. Bishop of Premeshyl, Poland on 23 September 1917. Imprisoned for his faith by Polish authorities in September 1945. Died in prison. One of the Martyrs Killed Under Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe.
Born
3 March 1876 at Pakoshivka, Lemkiv District, Ukraine
Died
martyred on 17 November 1947 in prison in Kiev, Ukraine
Beatified
27 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II in Ukraine
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