Sewerian Baranyk

Severian Baranyk OSBM (Ukrainian Северіян Бараник , born July 18, 1889 in Galicia , today Ukraine , † 1941 in Drohobytsch , today Ukraine) was a Basilian monk , priest and is a martyr of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church .

Life

Sewerian Baranyk grew up in times when his homeland Galicia , today's western Ukraine , was under the foreign rule of the Austrian Empire .

Baranyk's ecclesiastical career began when he entered the Basilian monastery of Krechiw , which was established by the male order of the Basilians of St. Josaphats was headed and was located in the Lviv administrative unit . For priests Baranyk ibid was posted on February 14, 1915 consecrated . From 1932, Sewerian Baranyk took over the ecclesiastical duties of a prior in the Basilian monastery of Drohobytsch . In general, Baranyk was considered a good preacher and pastorally he mainly cared for young people and orphans.

During the Second World War the city Drohobych was first in 1939 by the Soviet Union occupied as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between the Soviet and the Nazi - regime had been agreed. During the Soviet occupation, Baranyk, as an active clergyman of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, was viewed as an enemy of the Soviet state doctrine of atheism . This religious hostility culminated in the persecution of Christians during the times of the Soviet Union and was not only directed against the Russian Orthodox Church . The Interior Ministry of the USSR arranged for Baranyk to be arrested on June 26, 1941 in Drohobych. He was taken to the local prison and tortured there, which was evident from his body, which was discovered in June 1941 among other prisoners who had died in the prison.

On June 27, 2001, Sewerian Baranyk was officially beatified during Pope John Paul II's pastoral trip abroad in Ukraine .

See also

• Twenty-five Blessed of the Greek Catholic Church of Ukrainians

Web links

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