Commemoration of Father Osyp-Mykhailo Hodynya

The Eparchy of Wrocław-Koszalin commemorates Father Osyp-Mykhailo Hodynya, CSsR, a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, educator, publicist, and poet, on the 35th anniversary of his death.

Father Hodynya died in Lviv on October 26, 1991. He was ordained by Bishop Mykyta Budka in 1933 after completing his studies at the Greek Catholic Theological Academy in Lviv. From 1933 to 1935, he served as the rector of a vocational boarding school and as a catechist for vocational schools and gymnasiums in Lviv.

Between 1935 and 1945, he served as a priest at the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Lviv. During the German occupation, he worked with other Greek Catholic priests, including Abbot Klementiy Sheptytsky of the Univ Monastery, to help save Jews.