Divine service in memory of Omelyan Kovch

March 26, 2009, Kyiv.

On the video: Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ on the Left Bank of the Dnieper, various plans of the courtyard; divine service, people and priests near the cathedral; among those present are Oksana Bilozir and Archbishop of Lviv and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Lubomyr Huzar; icon of Omelyan Kovch, prayer, clergymen talk about his life and ministry.

Reference: Omelyan Kovch is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, chaplain of the Ukrainian Galician Army, pastor in Przemysljany, who saved Jews during the Nazi occupation, issuing them baptismal certificates. For this he was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in the Majdanek concentration camp, where he continued his priestly ministry and died on March 25, 1944. Beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2001, since 2009 he is the patron saint of pastors of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.