Omelyan Kovch was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest born in 1884 in Kosmach. After studying in Rome, he served as a military chaplain and later as a parish priest in Peremyshliany, where he focused on supporting orphans and the impoverished. During the Second World War, he was arrested by the Gestapo for protecting Jewish people by issuing hundreds of baptismal certificates. He eventually died in the Majdanek concentration camp in 1944.