Josyf Slipyj

Jossyf Ivanovič Cardinal Slipyj (Ukrainian Йосиф Сліпий, scientific transliteration Josyf Slipyj; born February 17, 1892 in Sasdrist, today Ternopil, Ukraine, † September 7, 1984 in Rome) was archbishop of Lviv, Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Jossyf Slipyj received his theological and philosophical studies at Canisianum in Innsbruck, in the College of Ternopil and Lviv University. He received on September 30, 1917, the sacrament of Holy Orders, and then worked as a pastor, writer and lecturer in Lviv.

Pope Pius XII. appointed him Titular Archbishop of Serres 1939 and coadjutor of the Archdiocese of Lviv. He received his episcopal consecration on December 22, 1939 Archbishop Andrei Scheptyzkyj than Mitkonsekrator assisted Mykolay Charnetskyi. 1944 Jossyf Slipyj was by right of succession Archbishop of Lviv. In 1945, he was deported by the Communist authorities to Siberia, where he remained imprisoned until 1963. Then he could leave for Rome, where he participated in the last three sessions of the Second Vatican Council. In 1965, Pope Paul VI. as cardinal priest with the titular church Sant'Atanasio dei Greci in the College of Cardinals. In the years of his stay in Rome, he was instrumental in setting up the Ukrainian Catholic University in Rome and in other countries. However, in 1963 his Metropolia was upgraded to Großerzbistum, was developed in the later years in exile in Rome 's plan to build a uniertes Ukrainian Patriarchate, without success.

Jossyf Slipyj died on September 7, 1984 in Rome and was buried there in the Basilica of St. Sophia. After the end of communism in the Soviet Union, he was publicly rehabilitated 1991, 1992, his remains were transferred to Lvov and buried in the local cathedral.