Hryhorii Petryshyn
Hryhorii Prokopovych Petryshyn was a Ukrainian priest, protoiereus, and writer.
Biography
Hryhorii Petryshyn was born on 12 June 1934, in Holhocha, now Pidhaitsi Hromada, Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.He graduated from the Theological Seminary in Odesa and the Theological Academy in Moscow. He served as a pastor in the villages of Potutory, Ternopil, Hadynkivtsi, Chortkiv, Zastavtsi, Chortkiv, Verbiv, Ternopil and Shveikiv, Chortkiv Raions of the Ternopil Oblast. He usually accompanied his sermons with his own poems.
Petryshyn was oppressed by the Soviet authorities.
Since 1993, he has been a chaplain of the OUN-UPA Brotherhood of the Podillia region "Lysonia".
Petryshyn died on 25 October 1998 in Shveikiv, Ternopil Oblast.