Yosafat Fedoryk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 20-Dec-1897
Place of Birth: Jarosław, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland
Date of Death: 28-Dec-1979
Profession: Catholic priest
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Yosafat Fedoryk
- Yosafat Yosyf Fedoryk, O.S.B.M.
- (Ukrainian: ??????? ????? ???????; 20 December 1897 – 28 December 1979) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic clandestine hierarch.
- He was Exarch of Central Asia from 1959 (from 1964 in rank of bishop) to 1967 and an auxiliary bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk from 1967 to 1979. Born in Jaroslaw, Austrian-Hungarian Empire (present-day – Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland) on 1897 in the family of railroader Roman Fedoryk and his wife Rozaliya (née Radelitska).
- After graduation of the Theological Seminary in Lviv he joined the religious Order of Saint Basil the Great.
- He was professed on 14 March 1923, solemn professed on 18 April 1926 and was ordained a priest on 1 January 1928 by Bishop Isaias Papadopoulos, while studying at Pontifical Gregorian University.
- After ordination he served in the different Basilian monasteries.
- From 1944 until 1945 Fr.
- Fedoryk was a superior in the monastery in Zolochiv.He was arrested on 1945, because the Communist regime abolished the Greek-Catholic Church, and imprisoned until his release in 1948, but the second time arrested in 1952 and released on 1960.
- He remained in exile until 1967.
- During his second imprisonment he was appointed by Yosyf Slipyi as Exarch for the Greek-Catholics in the Central Asia with the centre in Frunze And in 1964 Fr.
- Fedoryk was clandestinely consecrated to the Episcopate by Bishop Alexander Chira in Karaganda.Bishop Fedoryk returned from exile on 1967 and died on 28 December 1979.
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