His Eminent Beatitude Josyf Slipyj |
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Metropolitan of Galicia, Patriarch of Lviv, Cardinal | |
Cardinal Slipyj in Australia in 1968
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Church | Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
Appointed | 1 November 1944 |
Term ended | 7 September 1984 |
Predecessor | Andrey Sheptytsky |
Successor | Myroslav Lubachivsky |
Orders | |
Ordination | 30 Sep 1917 (Priest) |
Consecration | 22 Dec 1939 (Bishop) by Andrey Sheptytsky |
Created Cardinal | 22 February 1965 |
Personal details | |
Birth name | Йосип Сліпий |
Born | 17 February 1893 Zazdrist |
Died | September 7, 1984 Rome |
(aged 91)
Buried |
St. George's Cathedral, Lviv 49°50′19.48″N 24°0′46.19″E / 49.8387444°N 24.0128306°E |
Styles of Josyf Slipyj |
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Reference style | His Eminence |
Spoken style | Your Eminence |
Informal style | Cardinal |
Josyf Slipyj (Ukrainian: Йосип Сліпий) (17 February 1893 - 7 September 1984) was a Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and a Cardinal of the Catholic Church.
He was born in village of Zazdrist, Galicia (in modern Ternopil Oblast), then a crownland of Austria-Hungary. He studied at the Lviv Greek-Catholic Seminary and Innsbruck University in Austria, before being ordained a priest on 30 June 1917. From 1920 to 1922, he studied in Rome at the Pontifical Oriental Institute, the Collegio Angelico (Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum), and the Pontifical Gregorian University. He returned to Lwów (Lviv), by then part of Second Polish Republic, and taught at the seminary, eventually becoming its rector.
On 22 December 1939, with the blessing of Pope Pius XII, Slipyj was ordained archbishop of Serrae and Coadjutor Archbishop of Lviv with the right of succession. The ordination was conducted by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky in secrecy due to the Soviet presence and the political situation.