Vasyl Velychkovsky
Ukrainian Greek-Catholic bishop and martyr (1903–1973)
Feast: 30 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Winnipeg in the State of Manitoba in Canada, Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky, bishop of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church and martyr, who, for having secretly exercised his ministry among Catholic Christians of the Byzantine Rite, suffered much in his homeland at the hands of the persecutors of the faith and died in exile, joined to the sacrifice of Christ.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 30 June as a Ukrainian Greek-Catholic bishop who suffered for his secret ministry and died in exile at Winnipeg.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Roman Martyrology, 30 June (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q48682 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Vasyl Velychkovsky (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.