Blessed Clement Sheptytsky
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- Also known as
- Klymentij Sheptyckyj
- Memorial
- 2 April
- Profile
- Greek Catholic.
Younger brother of the Servant of God Metropolitan Andrew Sheptytsky.
Entered the monastery of Saint Theodore the Studite in 1911 at age 42.
Studied theology at Innsbruck, Austria.
Ordained on 28 August 1915.
Prior of the Studite monastery at Univ.
Abbot in 1944.
During World War II, he gave refuge to persecuted Jews.
Arrested for his faith on 5 June 1947 by the NKVD; sentenced to eight years in the forced labour camps.
He died in prison, a martyr.
- Born
- 17 November 1869 at Prylbychi, Lviv District, Ukraine
- Died
- 1 May 1951 in Volodymyr prison
- Name Meaning
- kind (Clement - latin)
- Beatified
- 27 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II at Ukraine
- Canonized
- pending
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