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3 unusual facts about Andrey Sheptytsky


Andrey Sheptytsky

During pastoral visits to Jewish villages he was sometimes met with the Torah.

In 1899, following the death of Cardinal Sylvester Sembratovych, Sheptytsky was nominated by Emperor Franz Joseph to fill the vacant position of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishop of Stanyslaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk), and Pope Leo XIII concurred.

Oleh Holovchak

The same year, in front of the diocesan house a monument of Andrey Sheptytsky, created in collaboration of Oleg Golovchak and his brother, a painter and sculptor Petro Golovchak, was unveiled.


Sobor on the Blood

In fact Yevhen Konovalets and Andriy Melnyk, Stepan Bandera and Andrey Sheptytsky, Taras Bulba-Borovets and Roman Shukhevych lived and acted in a difficult situation of the grandiose geo-political conflict between Hitlerite Reich, Joseph Stalin Empire and the western democracies.


see also

Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies

The Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies (MASI) is an institute at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada specializing in Eastern Christian Studies.