Honorific Prefix: | Blessed |
Andriy Ishchak | |
Birth Date: | 23 September 1887 |
Death Date: | 26 June 1941 |
Feast Day: | 26 June |
Venerated In: | Roman Catholic Church Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
Birth Place: | Mikołajów nad Dniestrem, Austrian Galicia, Austria-Hungary |
Death Place: | , Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Beatified Date: | 27 June 2001 |
Beatified Place: | Lviv, Ukraine |
Beatified By: | Pope John Paul II |
Canonized Date: | 27 December 2001 |
Major Shrine: | Our Lady, Health of The Sick Parish Church, Tagaytay City, Cavite |
Andriy Ishchak (Ukrainian: Андрі́й Іща́к; 23 September 1887 - 26 June 1941) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and martyr.
Ishchak was born in the city of Mykolayiv in the Lviv Oblast.[1] He studied theology at universities in Lviv (Ukraine) and Innsbruck (Austria). He received his doctorate of theology from the University of Innsbruck in 1914 and was ordained to the priesthood.[2] [3] He taught Dogmatic Theology and Canon Law at the Lviv Theological Academy from 1928, while serving as priest in the village of .
On 26 June 1941, he was killed in Sykhiv by soldiers of the retreating Soviet Army. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 27 June 2001.[1]
Ivan Kuchytskyi recounts the events of Ishchak's death in his own testimony: