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Andrey Sheptytsky
Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (1865-1944)
The Vatican record
- 16 July 2015 — Decree of the Dicastery (decree list, 2015)
Who they were
Andrey Sheptytsky OSBM (Polish: Andrzej Szeptycki; Ukrainian: Андрей Шептицький, romanized: Andrey Sheptytsky; 29 July 1865 – 1 November 1944) was a prelate and theologian of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church who served as Metropolitan of Galicia and Archbishop of Lviv from 1901 until his death in 1944. His tenure in office spanned two world wars and seven political regimes: Austrian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Soviet, Nazi German, and again Soviet.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Klymentiy Sheptytsky Blessed Brother or sister
- Mykola Tsehelskyi Saint“On April 5, 1925, Andrey Sheptytsky ordained Tsehelskyi to the priesthood.” — Wikipedia
- Anna Abrikosova Venerable“Pius X, Andrey Sheptytsky, and Leonid Feodorov, one of the driving forces behind the canonical formation of the Russian Greek Catholic Church in 1917.” — Wikipedia
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Wikidata Q24194 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Andrey Sheptytsky (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The dates and the step marked “Vatican record” come from the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints; the rest comes from Wikidata and is not yet checked.