Wassyl Lypkivskyi
Vasyl Kostjantynowytsch Lypkiwskyj ( Ukrainian Василь Костянтинович Липківський ; born March 7 . Jul / 19th March 1864 greg. In Popudnja , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 27. November 1937 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian education activist, reformer, journalist , Writer, translator, founder and since October 1921 first Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Kiev and all of Ukraine.
Life
Wassyl Lypkiwskyj was ordained a priest in 1891 and from 1892 to 1903 he was dean of the cathedral in Lypowets and the supervisor of the schools in Ujesd Lypowets. Between 1903 and 1905 he taught canon law at the Teachers' School of the Kiev Church, but had to give up this position due to his support for a separate Ukrainian Church. In 1919 he held the first service in Ukrainian in the Kiev Cathedral. In October 1921 the autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox Church was founded and Lypkiwskyj was elected its Metropolitan and consecrated on October 23 of the same year, which was not recognized by the Russian Orthodox Church and is therefore not canonical.
In October 1927 the delegates of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches were put under massive pressure by the repressive Bolshevik government not to re-elect him. In the following years he was under constant surveillance by the authorities, who arrested him several times. He was arrested again on October 22, 1937, sentenced to death by a special court of the NKVD and executed. His burial place is not known, a tomb was symbolically erected for him in the Lukjanivska cemetery .
Honors
On the occasion of Ivan Ohijenko's 150th birthday in 2014, the Ukrainian Post issued a postage stamp and the Ukrainian National Bank issued a two- hryvnia commemorative coin with his portrait within the series of outstanding personalities of Ukraine .
Web links
- Biography Wassyl Lypkiwskyj on Uahistory.info (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Website of the National Bank of Ukraine ; accessed on December 16, 2016 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b entry on Lypkivsky, Vasyl ; in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine accessed on December 12, 2016
- ^ Entry on Wassyl Lypkiwskyj on the "Web Encyclopedia of Kiev"; accessed on December 12, 2016 (Ukrainian)
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| SURNAME | Lypkiwskyj, Wassyl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lypkiwskyj, Wassyl Kostjantynowytsch (full name); Липкі́вський, Васи́ль Костянти́нович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian metropolitan, education activist, reformer, journalist, writer, translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Popudnja , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 1937 |
| Place of death | Kiev , Ukrainian SSR |