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Saint Tomb · Ukraine

St. George Archcathedral and the Tombs of Venerable Andrey Sheptytsky and Patriarch Josyf Slipyj

Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine

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Why pilgrims come

A sacred place worth the journey.

The historic archcathedral of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and burial place of Venerable Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, Patriarch Josyf Slipyj, and other hierarchs. Sheptytsky is Venerable, not Blessed or saint; Slipyj's cause is distinct. The cathedral was seized after the Soviet pseudo-synod of 1946 and returned to the UGCC in 1990.

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The pilgrim’s guide

What makes this visit meaningful

Study the UGCC's survival through its mother cathedral, Sheptytsky's tomb, Slipyj's return from exile, and the crypt's continuing prayer.

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Venerable Andrey's tomb

Pray with his canonical title and unfinished cause kept exact.

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Josyf Slipyj returned

Remember eighteen years of imprisonment and the 1992 translation of his body from Rome.

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