Zynoviy Kovalyk
BlessedJune 30 · 1903–1941
Zynoviy Kovalyk (1903, Ivachiv Horishniy — 1941, Lviv) — Blessed, presbyter. Feast day: 30 June.
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Zynoviy Kovalyk was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer who lived from 1903 to 1941. Born in Ivachiv Horishniy, he made his first religious profession in 1926 and was ordained a priest in 1932. Throughout his ministry, he worked to promote ecumenism in the Volhynia region and served as a provincial bursar in Stanislaviv. He is remembered for his public opposition to Soviet atheist ideology, which eventually led to his arrest and death.