Blessed John Sleziuk
![[photograph of Blessed John]](saintjdz.jpg "10kb jpg photograph of Blessed John, date unknown, photographer unknown; swiped off the Kirken i Norge web site; please do not write to ask about the image")
- Also known as
- Ivan Slezyuk
- Memorial
- 2 April
- Profile
- Greek Catholic.
Ordained in 1923.
Co-adjutor bishop in April 1945.
Arrested for his faith on 2 June 1945, and sentenced to ten years in the forced labour camps in Vorkuta, Russia; transferred in 1950 to Mordovia, Russia.
Released on 15 November 1954, and returned to Ivano-Frankivsk.
Arrested again for his faith in 1962; sentenced to five years in the forced labour camps.
Released on 30 November 1968.
Routinely and repeatedly interrogated by the KGB until his death.
- Born
- 14 January 1896 at Zhyvachiv, Stanislaviv District, Ukraine
- Died
- 2 December 1973 in Ivano-Frankivsk
- Name Meaning
- God is gracious; gift of God (John)
- Beatified
- 27 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II at Ukraine
- Canonized
- pending
- Additional Information
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