Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:bishop
gptkb:person
religious leader
gptkbp:beatifiedBy Servant of God
gptkbp:birthDate 1865-07-29
gptkbp:birthName gptkb:Roman_Aleksander_Maria_Sheptytsky
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Prylbychi,_Austrian_Empire
gptkbp:burialPlace gptkb:St._George's_Cathedral,_Lviv
gptkbp:causeOfDeath natural causes
gptkbp:commemoratedBy Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Ukrainian state
various monuments and institutions
gptkbp:consecrationDate gptkb:Julian_Sas-Kuilovsky
1899-09-17
gptkbp:deathDate 1944-11-01
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Lviv,_Ukrainian_SSR,_Soviet_Union
gptkbp:education gptkb:University_of_Vienna
gptkb:University_of_Kraków
gptkb:University_of_Lviv
gptkbp:family gptkb:Sheptytsky_family
gptkbp:father Jan Kanty Sheptytsky
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Andrey_Sheptytsky
gptkbp:honor Righteous Among the Nations (posthumously, not officially recognized by Yad Vashem as of 2024)
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky
gptkbp:knownFor interfaith dialogue
saving Jews during the Holocaust
leadership of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
promoting Ukrainian culture
gptkbp:language gptkb:French
gptkb:German
gptkb:Greek
gptkb:Hebrew
gptkb:Latin
Polish
Ukrainian
gptkbp:mother Zofia Fredro
gptkbp:nationality Ukrainian
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:philosophy
pastoral letters
founding of monasteries
support for Ukrainian independence
support for education and healthcare
gptkbp:ordinationDate 1892-09-22
gptkbp:position gptkb:Metropolitan_Archbishop_of_Lviv
gptkbp:predecessor gptkb:Sylvester_Sembratovych
gptkbp:religion Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
gptkbp:sibling gptkb:Stanisław_Szeptycki
Aleksander Szeptycki
Klemens Szeptycki
Leon Szeptycki
gptkbp:successor gptkb:Josyf_Slipyj
gptkbp:termEnd 1944
gptkbp:termStart 1901
gptkbp:veneratedIn Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Sheptytsky_Prize
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7