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 Hryhorij Lakota was a Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church auxiliary bishop

Bishop

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 who suffered religious persecution

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 and was martyred

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 by the Soviet Government

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Hryhorij Lakota was born 31 January 1893 in Holodivka, Lviv Oblast

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. He was appointed auxiliary bishop of Przemyśl

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 on 16 May 1926. On 9 June 1946, he was arrested and sentenced to ten years imprisonment, as part of Stalin's suppression of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic (Uniate) church. He was martyred at the Abez labour camp, near Vorkuta

Vorkuta

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 on 12 November 1950.

Hryhorij Lakota was beatified by Pope John Paul II

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 on 27 June 2001 in Ukraine

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