Jossyf Slipyj
Jossyf Ivanovič Cardinal Slipyj ( Ukrainian Йосиф Сліпий , scientific transliteration Josyf Slipyj ; born February 17, 1892 in Sasdrist , today Ternopil Oblast , Ukraine ; † September 7, 1984 in Rome ) was Archbishop of Lemberg , Grand Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .
Life
Jossyf Slipyj received his theological and philosophical training at the Canisianum in Innsbruck, at the College of Ternopil and at the University of Lemberg . He received on 30 September 1917, the sacrament of Holy Orders , and then worked as a pastor , writer and lecturer in Lviv.
Pope Pius XII appointed him in 1939 titular Archbishop of Serrae and coadjutor of the Archdiocese of Lemberg . The episcopal ordination donated to him on December 22, 1939 Archbishop Andrey Sheptytsky as Mitkonsekrator assisted Mykolaj Tscharnezkyj . During the occupation of Ukraine by German troops in World War II, he was under police supervision; He was questioned several times by the Gestapo .
After Sheptyzky's death, Jossyf Slipyj became Archbishop of Lemberg by succession in November 1944. At first the Soviet secret police NKVD did not bother him . As KGB general Pavel Sudoplatov reported half a century later, the Soviet leadership did not want to burden the climate before the Yalta conference and, above all, refuted allegations from the West that the Ukrainian believers were being persecuted in the Soviet Union. But two months after the Yalta Conference, at which the Western Allies accepted that Western Ukraine, annexed by Moscow in autumn 1939, belonged to the Soviet Union, Slipyj was arrested on April 11, 1945 and deported to Siberia . He was released in 1963. Pope John XXIII had obtained his release ; he had brought the Slipyj case to a private audience for Alexei Adschubei , the son-in-law of the Soviet party leader Nikita Khrushchev .
Slipyj was able to travel to Rome via Moscow , where he took part in the last three sessions of the Second Vatican Council . In 1965 Pope Paul VI took him . as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Sant'Atanasio dei Greci in the College of Cardinals . During the years of his stay in Rome, he was instrumental in setting up the Ukrainian Catholic University in Rome and in other countries. Although his metropolis was upgraded to a grand archbishopric in 1963, the plan developed in later years in Roman exile to establish a United Ukrainian patriarchate was unsuccessful.
Jossyf Slipyj died on September 7, 1984 in Rome and was buried in the local basilica of St. Sophia . After the end of communism in the Soviet Union, he was publicly rehabilitated in 1991, and in 1992 his remains were transferred to Lviv and buried in the local cathedral .
Honors
Honorary Doctorate from the Catholic University of America .
On 20 June 2017, gave the National Bank of Ukraine a 2 in his honor ₴ - commemorative coin out.
literature
- Jaroslav Pelikan: Confessor between East and West. A portrait of Ukrainian Cardinal Josyf Slipyj. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids MI 1990, ISBN 0-8028-3672-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jossyf Slipyj in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Jossyf Slipyj on catholic-hierarchy.org
- “A witness of heroic fidelity” - memory of Josyf Cardinal Slipyj
- Last words of Pope John Paul II at the Office of the Soul for the late Cardinal Slipyj (October 17, 1984)
- "Prisoner for Christ's sake" - excerpts from the will of Josyf Cardinal Slipyj
Footnotes
- ↑ Russian colonialism in Ukraine. Reports and documents . Ukrainischer Verlag, Munich 1962, p. 118.
- ↑ Pavel Sudoplatov: Specoperacii. Lubyanka i Kremlin '1930-1950 gody. Moscow 1997, p. 377.
- ↑ Russian colonialism in Ukraine. Reports and documents . Ukrainischer Verlag, Munich 1962, p. 117.
- ↑ Vatican intimate Der Spiegel , November 4, 1974.
- ↑ Outstanding personalities of Ukraine - Yossyf Slipyj , on the website of the National Bank of Ukraine
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Andrei Scheptyzkyj |
Metropolitan of Lviv 1944–1963 |
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Grand Archbishop of Lviv 1963–1984 |
Myroslaw Cardinal Lyubachivskyi |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Slipyj, Jossyf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Slipyj, Jossyf Cardinal (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian cardinal and Archbishop of Lviv |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sasdrist , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1984 |
| Place of death | Rome |