Ivan Hrynokh (December 28, 1907-October 14, 1994) was a

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and Ukrainian community activist. Born in the village of Pavliv near

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to Mykhailo and Anastiya Hrynokh on December 29, 1907, his parents emigrated to the United States in 1909 and settled in

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where his brother Stepan was born in 1911. The family returned to their home village in 1911. Ivan received his high school education in Lviv and commenced theological studies there which he completed with a doctorate studying in

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and

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. He took on priestly vows in September 1932 from Metropolitan

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and taught

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and

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at the Theological Academy in Lviv. He was arrested by the Polish government in 1938 and remained incarcerated at the

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until the fall of Poland. With the amalgamation of Western Ukraine by the Soviets, father Hrynokh traveled to Krakow where he preached and was active in Ukrainian politics. He became the

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to the

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. After the dissolution of the Battalion, he participated in the 3rd Great Conference of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists which took place in Ukraine in 1943, and was one of the instigators of the

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where he was elected Vice President in July 1944. In this position he fulfilled a diplomatic mission in talks with the Romanian and Hungarian governments. He was sent to the West to find alliances for the UPA with the Allied forces and traveled via

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to Germany settling in

. In 1950 he became the head of the foreign section of the UHVR which he chaired until 1980. Simultaneously he was the head of the Society for foreign studies and founded the newspaper "Suchasna Ukraina" (Contemporary Ukraine), "Ukrainska Literaturna hazeta" (The Ukrainian literary newspaper) and the magazine "Suchasnist'" (Today). He continued teaching theology and philosophy in seminaries in Hischberg, Kulenburg and was a

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at the

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in Munich. With the release by the Soviets of

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Joseph Slipyj Josyf Slipyi ( uk, Йосиф Сліпий, born as uk, Йосиф Коберницький-Дичковський, translit=Yosyf Kobernyts'kyy-Dychkovs'kyy; 17 February 1892 – 7 September 1984) was a Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek ...

in 1963 a Ukrainian Catholic University was established in

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where he became professor. He was one of the founders of the Patriarchal movement for the Ukrainian-Catholic Church. Father Ivan Hrynokh died October 14, 1994 in Munich at the age of 87. He was buried in

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References

Іван Гриньох: душпастир і політик
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