Basil Hopko
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Basil or Vasiľ Hopko was an eparch of the Slovak Greek Catholic Church. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 14 September 2003 for his martyrdom under Communist occupation.
Hopko in 1967.
Pavel Peter Gojdič
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Pavel Peter Gojdič, OSBM, was a Rusyn Basilian monk who served as Eparch of Prešov in the Slovak Greek Catholic Church. Following the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état, he was arrested by the StB, the sec
Basil Hopko
…headed the eparchy's publishing division, where he edited a monthly periodical. After World War II, a growing Soviet Communist influence caused Bishop Pavol Peter Gojdič of Prešov to ask the Holy See for an Auxiliary Bishop to help defend the Greek Catholic Church. Hopko was appointed to the post on 11 May 1947. The…
Bishop Pavel Peter Gojdič
Memorial to Bishop Gojdič at the Leopoldov cemetery