170th anniversary of the birth of martyr Ivan Kypriyan

The Eparchy of Wrocław-Koszalin marks the 170th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Kypriyan, a martyr of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

Kypriyan studied theology at the Przemyśl Seminary and music in Lviv. He served as a priest in Galicia from 1904 to 1914 and later in Nemyriv. He was a musicologist, conductor, and author of spiritual music who also led the Prosvita society and ran for the Vienna Parliament. The Eparchy identifies him as one of the first Ukrainian new martyrs killed by the communist regime.