Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian-Canadian bishop and martyr (born 1903)

Vasyl Velychkovsky

Ukrainian bishop and martyr (1903–1973)

Vasyl Vsevolod Velychkovsky, CSsR was a Ukrainian religious priest of the Redemptorists and a prelate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He is considered a martyr in the Catholic Church, due to his death in 1973 of injuries sustained while imprisoned by the Soviet Union for…