PATRIARCH JOSYF SLIPYJ AND HIS ROLE IN BUILDING THE SPIRITUAL EDUCATION UKRAINIAN PEOPLE

Abstract

In the article the figure of spiritual giant Ukrainian Patriarch Josyf Slipyj people and their contribution to the development of theological education of the Ukrainian people. Archbishop, Cardinal and Metropolitan Josyf was blind scholar, confessors of the faith and international protector of persecuted Christians. Josyf Slipyj thesis dealt with the issue Trinitarian theology, Pneumatology – the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. He was a creative writer, whose works comprise twenty volumes. Edited theological journal «Theology». April 11, 1945, Soviet authorities arrested Archbishop Josyf. He spent 18 years in Stalin’s prisons and labor camps in Siberia. In exile, wrote an essay «The history of the Catholic Church in Ukraine» 5 volumes. After the intervention of Pope John XXIII and US President John F. Kennedy was released in 1963 to participate in the II Vatican Council. He founded the Ukrainian Catholic University and built the church of St. Sophia in Rome. Ukrainian built up a spiritual education worldwide.