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Date of birth: February 17, 1892
\nLocation: The village of Zazdrist, Terebovlia estate, Ternopil region.
\nParents: Ivan Kobernytskyi-Slipyj (father) and Anastasia Dychkovska (mother)<\/p>\n
1911
\nFinished secondary school in Ternopil with a special award<\/p>\n
1911
\nEnrolled at the Lviv Greek-Catholic Theological Seminary
\nAs a promising sophomore, he was sent for studies at the Departments of Philosophy and Theology at Innsbruck University, Austria.<\/p>\n
September 30, 1917
\nOrdained to the priesthood by Metropolitan Sheptytsky at Univ
\nContinued his studies at Innsbruck University where he defended his dissertation on \u201cThe Notion of Eternal Life as interpreted by St. John the Evangelist\u201d<\/p>\n
1918
\nReceived his Doctorate in Theology
\nWrote a work in German on \u201cThe Teaching on the Holy Trinity by Byzantine Patriarch Photius,\u201d which he presented at Innsbruck University<\/p>\n
November, 1920
\nLeft for Rome to continue his studies at the Gregorian University and the Pontifical Oriental Institute
\nCompleted a work entitled, \u201cThe Rudiments of the Holy Spirit\u2019s Origin in the Holy Trinity,\u201d composed in Latin
\nHaving passed an additional exam, he received the title \u201cMagister Aggregatus\u201d
\nStudied English, Italian, German, Polish and French.<\/p>\n
1922
\nUpon his return from Rome, taught Dogmatic Theology at the Lviv Seminary
\nCo-founded the Ukrainian Academic Theological Society in Lviv.<\/p>\n
September 3, 1922
\nBegan publishing a quarterly \u201cTheology,\u201d which he edited until 1939<\/p>\n
1926
\nAppointed Rector of the seminary.<\/p>\n
February 22, 1928
\nMetropolitan Andrey (Sheptytsky) approved the statute of the academy and the nomination of Fr. Josyf Slipyj, Ph.D, as the rector of the Lviv Theological Academy<\/p>\n
1932
\nThe department of Philosophy opened at the LTA.
\nWrote works on historical, philosophical and literary subjects, in addition to numerous works on art and religious law
\nPublished a series of papers on \u201cThe Works of the Greek-Catholic Academy\u201d<\/p>\n
1936
\nAt Josyf Slipyj\u2019s initiative, Lviv hosted the Union Congress, dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the death of Kyiv Metropolitan Josyf Veliamyn (Rutsky)<\/p>\n
December 22, 1939
\nUpon Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky\u2019s request, Pope Pius XII gave his blessing of approval to Rev. Josyf Slypij\u2019s being ordained archbishop with the right of succession
\nThe ordination was held in secret since \u201c\u2026in times of persecution, ordination is less of an honor and more of a burden,\u201d as Josyf Slipyj said.<\/p>\n
1941 \u20131944
\nDespite the war, he resumed work at the LTA.<\/p>\n
November 1, 1944
\nAfter Andrey Sheptytsky\u2019s death, he assumed the rights of the Metropolitan.<\/p>\n
April 10, 1945
\nArrested by NKVD (predecessor of the KGB).<\/p>\n
April 11, 1945 \u2013 May 10, 1946
\nHeld in custody in the jail on Lontsky St. in Lviv; in the Lukanivska jail in Kyiv; in Lubyanka in Moscow
\nThe secret military tribunal sentenced him to 8 years in concentration camps in Siberia<\/p>\n
Stages of his internment:<\/p>\n
1. Novosybirsk: \u201c\u2026 they are being sent into exile \u2026 and the journeys may last for months. Before the convicts arrive, they are almost dead. So exhausted by all these transfers, hunger, brutally cold weather and everything \u2026 When they finally arrive, they are thin and exhausted; dead-tired they fall on icy logs. The physical torture and pain can just kill a person\u2026,\u201d Josyf Slipyj writing about Pope Clement I\u2019s exile.
\n2. Mariyinske, Kemerovo region: here he suffered from pneumonia and dysentery, but was refused hospitalization. Instead, he was sent on to another stage.
\n3. Boyimy: here his arm was broken (\u201cothers get their ribs broken, and in your case it\u2019s only a hand,\u201d the doctor was reported as saying).
\n4. Kirov, Russia: with a group consisting of 40 people, among whom were three priests and a bishop, Charnetskyi.<\/p>\n
1947
\nThe concentration camp in Pechora, Inta: \u201cThe Metropolitan was tired, sitting on his backpack. All of a sudden, two fellows ran into the room and began to look around. They jumped on the Metropolitan, then disappeared along with the Metropolitan\u2019s baggage. He was left lying on the floor bleeding.\u201d (from the memoirs of Prof. Grobauer, a citizen of Austria).
\nThe concentration camp in Kosiu, Komi ARSR, Potma (Russia): \u201cIt took us almost a month to get to the camp. His Beatitude Josyf looked awful; we was suffering from a fever,\u201d recollects Ferdinand Tseppichal.<\/p>\n
August 1948 \u20131949
\nCamp \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd 23 in Temiakovsky region of Mordovia<\/p>\n
1950
\nSent to testify in court. Shortly afterwards sent back to Potma, and then to camp \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd 14<\/p>\n
May 15, 1953
\nReceived a summons to appear before a commission that proposed he join the Orthodox Church. The commission promised to return his titles and possibly to assign him to a high position in the Russian Orthodox Church. Metropolitan Josyf Slipyj resolutely declined this proposal, after which he was sent to a nursing home.<\/p>\n
June 1953
\nOrdered to come to Moscow in order to help establish contact with the Vatican. Met with Marshal Zhukov. Proposed to write a paper on the history of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the USSR.<\/p>\n
1954 \u2013 1956
\nAfter Beria was ruined, Slipyj was sent to a nursing home in the village of Malakhovo, near Yeniseysk (Siberia). He wrote from memory a history of the Catholic Church and also wrote pastoral epistles, which he sent to Ukraine through people he trusted. The KGB, however, managed to intercept a manuscript of \u201cThe History.\u201d<\/p>\n
1957
\nOn the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Slipyj\u2019s ordination to the priesthood, Pope Pius XII sent the Metropolitan in exile his greetings . The letter did not reach its destination, since it was confiscated. It later served, in addition to the previously intercepted manuscript, as grounds for a new arrest. Patriarch Josyf was brought to Yenisey, shortly afterwards to Krasnoyarsk and then to Kyiv.<\/p>\n
June 1959
\nArrested for another 7 years
\nHis next stage of interment was in Kamchatka, after which followed the Taishei camps.<\/p>\n
1960
\nPotma\u2014 (\u201cOne travels in well-lit and overcrowded cattle cars with convicts. Armed guards are everywhere. Through a little window one can see the broad expanse of Siberia.\u201d \u2013 Abraham Shifrin [Munich].)
\nTransferred to camps in Sverdlovsk, Chuny and Novochunky.<\/p>\n
December 1960
\nSent again to Kyiv. Asked about his greatest and least demands of the government; was asked to denounce the Pope and speak against the nationalists living abroad. \u201cYou are mocking me and my Church, damaging and destroying everything that we\u2019ve built up and now you want me to oppose those who are united with me in spirit and defend themselves?\u201d was the answer His Beatitude (the Metropolitan) gave.<\/p>\n
October 1961
\nThe Supreme Court found Josyf Slipyj an especially dangerous recidivist and sent him to Mordovia. Suffering from pneumonia, he arrived at the camp in Yavas, Mordovia.<\/p>\n
January 26, 1963
\nSet free at the request of Pope John XXIII and US President Kennedy. Prior to his trip to Rome, he asked to see his relatives in Moscow. Fr. Vasyl Vsevolod Velychkovskyi, hegumen (abbot) of the Redemptorists and head of the Ternopil monastery, came to Moscow posing as a relative. In his hotel room, Josyf Slipy ordained Fr. Vasyl Velychkovsky bishop of Lutsk and appointed him locum tenens (\u201cacting head\u201d in Ukraine).<\/p>\n
February 9, 1963
\nArrived at the Basilian monastery in Grotaferrata, Italy (outside of Rome). Met with Pope John XXIII, to whom he presented a map which pinpointed all the camps he had been to<\/p>\n
March 3, 1963
\nIn his Easter address, called upon all Ukrainians \u201cby all means to stay united. Though we are all scattered around the world, we are still united in the Holy Eucharist and our paschal faith, which is expressed by the words \u2018Christ has risen!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
March 28, 1963
\nParticipated for the first time in the Conference of Ukrainian Bishops.<\/p>\n
October 11, 1963
\nSpoke at the Second Vatican Council, at which 2500 delegates from all over the world participated, and urged that the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church be raised to the honor of a Patriarchate. For this, he received the unanimous support of the council fathers.<\/p>\n
November 25, 1963
\nIssued a charter establishing the Ukrainian Catholic University, naming it after Pope Saint Clement I, who died in Crimea, southern Ukraine, at the end of the first century. Thereafter, he resumed the work of the Academic Theological Society and the publishing of the journal \u201cTheology.\u201d<\/p>\n
December 23, 1963
\nJosyf Slipyj received the title of ‘Major Archbishop,’ approved by Pope Paul VI.
\nIn 1949, he had been secretly named a cardinal and in 1965 was solemnly proclaimed as such. He became the fourth cardinal in the history of Ukraine.
\nA member of the Congregation for Eastern Churches .<\/p>\n
October 1, 1965
\nWith the Patriarch\u2019s blessing, the Studite Order was re-established.<\/p>\n
1967
\nRenovated the Church of the Holy Martyrs, Saints Sergius and Bacchus, and founded the first Ukrainian Greek Catholic parish in Italy.<\/p>\n
September 27, 1969
\nJosyf Slipyj consecrated St. Sophia’s Cathedral in Rome, saying \u201c\u2026 thanks to the donations of all Ukrainian people, in particular the laity, and also thanks to my humble work, the Ukrainian Catholic University, a real realm of academics, has been established. St. Sophia’s Cathedral, a sign and symbol of the indestructibility of the Holy Church on earth and a place of worship, has been built. The Studite Order, an ever-shining island of Christian righteousness and Eastern monasticism and piety has been re-established.\u201d<\/p>\n
1968 \u20131973
\nVisited Ukrainian believers abroad with the aim of establishing closer contacts and of bringing them closer to the Holy Eucharist, in addition to enlivening their spiritual lives. He visited 14 countries: Canada, USA, Columbia, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Spain, Portugal, England, France, Austria, India and Malta.<\/p>\n
1969
\n19 of 21 bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church requested that the Pope confer the title of Patriarch on Josyf Slipyj.<\/p>\n
1971
\nPope Paul VI refused.<\/p>\n
1971
\n\u201cYou need to stay united by speaking the same language, sharing the same faith in Jesus Christ, joining in prayers, practicing the same system of services, the same rite and the same national Ukrainian mentality. You need to cherish the same love for the common heritage of our princes and warriors, for our culture, literature, art, customs and traditions of statehood, sustained throughout our centuries-old history. You need to testify to the unity of the Ukrainian nation, regardless of the country you happen to reside in.\u201d (from his address to Ukrainians in Canada)<\/p>\n
1971
\nFounded the Museum of Ukrainian Art and a hotel complex attached to Sts. Sergius and Bacchus Church.<\/p>\n
October 23, 1971
\nAt the Synod of Bishops he delivered a report on the persecution of the Ukrainian Church and people, entitled \u201cThe Church of Martyrs.\u201d<\/p>\n
1973
\nFather Hrynokh, a former chaplain of the OUN-ULA (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists \u2013 Ukrainian Liberation Army), first referred to Josyf Slipyj as Patriarch during the Divine Liturgy in St. Peter\u2019s Basilica in Rome. Since then, this title has been used often in reference to Josyf Slipyj.
\nPatriarch Josyf founded six subsidiaries of the Ukrainian Catholic University.<\/p>\n
August 1978
\nCardinal Josyf, addressing all cardinals, distinguished religious figures, state representatives and those accredited to the Holy See , informed them of the incredible casualties and sufferings of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and he asked them to oppose the attacks of communists.<\/p>\n
March 24, 1980
\nPope John Paul II convened the Extraordinary Synod of Ukrainian Bishops, at which he announced that the Metropolitan of Philadelphia, Ivan Myroslav (Lubachivsky), had been chosen coadjutor to Patriarch Josyf.<\/p>\n
1970 \u20131981
\nWrote his \u201cTestament,\u201d in which he contemplated the future of the Church and pondered various aspects of religious and social life.<\/p>\n
November 25 and December 2, 1980
\nThe Synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church declared as illegitimate the 1946 Lviv pseudo-Synod that attempted to liquidate the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.<\/p>\n
September 7, 1984
\nCardinal Josyf Slipyj, patriarch of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, died.<\/p>\n
April 17, 1991
\nPosthumously rehabilitated by the Soviet government.<\/p>\n
August 27, 1992
\nHis mortal remains were brought back to Ukraine, where they were buried in the crypt of St. George\u2019s Cathedral in Lviv.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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