17 Facts About Klymentiy Sheptytsky

Klymentiy Sheptytsky was the archimandrite of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Order of Studite Monks and a hieromartyr.

Klymentiy Sheptytsky was the Russian Catholic Apostolic Exarch of Great Russia and Siberia.

Klymentiy Sheptytsky was arrested and died a political prisoner of the Soviet Union in the Vladimir Central Prison.

Klymentiy Sheptytsky was born as Kazimierz Maria Szeptycki on 17 November 1869 in the village of Prylbychi, Yavorich Region, near Lviv in Galicia to an old Polish-Ruthenian noble family.

Klymentiy Sheptytsky was a younger brother of the future Venerable, Metropolitan Bishop Andrey Sheptytsky, and received his education first at home and starting in 1882 at Krakow.

In 1900 Casimir Klymentiy Sheptytsky was elected to the Austrian parliament, and a member of the National Council, however after its dissolution in 1907 he decided to withdraw from politics.

In 1911 Klymentiy Sheptytsky decided to become a monk and entered the Benedictine Beuron Archabbey, Germany.

Klymentiy Sheptytsky took the religious name of Clement, after Pope Clement I, martyred in Chersonesos, who together with Andrew the Apostle is considered to be the founder of Christianity in the Balkans.

Klymentiy Sheptytsky took solemn vows on 22 December 1917 as a member of the Ukrainian Studite Monks.

In 1926, Klymentiy Sheptytsky was named the hegumen of the Univ Lavra and in 1944, became the Archmandrite.

At the time they did not arrest the Metropolitan himself, fearing his great authority among the nation, but went after his family attempting to capture Klymentiy Sheptytsky and murdering their brother Leon along with his family.

Klymentiy Sheptytsky still prepared literature for possible future missionary work there and in 1942 established a separate vicariate for Siberia.

Klymentiy Sheptytsky was recognized as one of the Righteous among the Nations by the State of Israel in 1995.

Klymentiy Sheptytsky said: 'You need to take care of your stomach,' and the others he divided among us.

Klymentiy Sheptytsky died on 1 May 1951 in Vladimir Central Prison.

Klymentiy Sheptytsky was beatified on 27 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II in Lviv, during his apostolic journey to Ukraine, together with 27 other members of the Ukrainian Catholic Church previously declared Venerable.

On 29 July 2011, a monument to Andrey and Klymentiy Sheptytsky was unveiled in their home village of Prylbychi.