Blessed Yosafat Kotsylovskyi

Also known as

• Josaphat Kocylovskyj
• Josaphat Kotsylovsky

Memorial

• 17 November
• 27 June as one of the Martyrs Killed Under Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe

Profile

Greek Catholic. Studied theology in Rome, graduating in 1907. Ordained on 9 October 1907. Vice-rector and professor of theology at the Stanislaviv, Ukraine seminary. Entered the Basilian novitiate on 2 October 1911. Bishop of Premeshyl, Poland on 23 September 1917. Imprisoned for his faith by Polish authorities in September 1945. Died in prison. One of the Martyrs Killed Under Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe.

Born

• 3 March 1876 at Pakoshivka, Lemkiv District, Ukraine

Died

• martyred on 17 November 1947 in prison in Kiev, Ukraine

Venerated

• 24 April 2001 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified

• 27 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II in Ukraine

Canonized

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     Ukrain’ska Greko-Katolits’ka Tserkva
     pl. Sviatoho Yura 5
     L’viv 79000, UKRAINE
     - or -
     Chiesa S. Sofia Ucraina
     Via Boccea, 478
     00166 Roma, ITALY

Additional Information

• Catholic-Hierarchy.Org
• Hagiography Circle
• Kirken i Norge

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Yosafat Kotsylovskyi”. Saints.SQPN.com. 2 April 2010. Web. 19 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-yosafat-kotsylovskyi/>