Josaphat Kocylovskyi
Josaphat Kotsylovsky OSBM ( Polish : Jozafat Kocyłowski , Ukrainian : Йосафат Йосиф Коциловський ; * 3. March 1876 in Pakoszówka , today Poland ; † 17th November 1947 in Chapaivka , Soviet Union , now Ukraine ) was a Basilian monk , priest , bishop and a Martyr of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and Blessed of the Roman Catholic Church .
Life
Josaphat Kocylovskyj was born in the Galician village of Pakoszówka in the Greek Catholic parish of Lalin , in present-day Poland . He came from the Russian tribe of the Lemken and felt ethnically part of the Ukrainians .
Kocylovskyj completed his theological studies in Rome and finished it there in 1907. He was ordained a priest on October 9, 1907, at the age of 31 . Josaphat Kocylovskyj was appointed Vice Rector of the Greek Catholic Seminary in Ivano-Frankivsk . He taught theology as a professor there .
On October 2, 1911, Kocylovskyj became a member of the Basilian of St. Josaphat . In 1917 Josaphat Kocylovskyj was appointed bishop of what is now the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Archeparchy Przemyśl-Warsaw . The church celebrations were presided over by Grand Archbishop Andrej Scheptyzkyj on October 23, 1917, when Kocylovskyj was ordained bishop, and he was enthroned .
The leading Polish communist rulers had Josaphat Kocylovskyj arrested on June 26, 1946 and extradited him to the Soviet Union . These brought Kocylovskyj to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic , first to the prison in Kiev , then to the Gulag of Chapaivka. Bishop Josaphat Kocylovskyj died there on November 17, 1947 at the age of 71.
Pope John Paul II beatified Josaphat Kocylovskyj in Rome on June 27, 2001 .
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Konstantyn Czechowicz |
Bishop of Przemyśl 1917 - 1947 |
Ivan Choma |
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| SURNAME | Kocylovskyj, Josaphat |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Йосафат Йосиф Коциловський; Jozafat Kocyłowski |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian Basilian monk, Blessed |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pakoszówka , Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 17, 1947 |
| Place of death | Chapaivka , Ukrainian SSR |