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Oleksii Danylovych Hunovskyi (; 1882, Didyliv,

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– May 1961,

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) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, composer, public figure, educator, and political prisoner. Head of the Chortkiv District National Council of the

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Biography

Oleksii Hunovskyi was born in 1882 in Didyliv, now the Novyi Yarychiv Hromada of the

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of the

of Ukraine.Гуньовський Олексій, Реабілітовані історією. Тернопільська область : у 5 кн., О. Бажан, Є. Гасай, П. Гуцал (упорядники), Тернопіль : Терно-граф, 2020, Кн. 6, s. 142–143, ISBN 978-966-457-402-7.Добрий пастир, композитор, патріот, На перевалі духу, С. Флис, о. І. Лозинський; Івано-Франків. обл. орг. Нац. спілки краєзнавців України �а ін. Івано-Франківськ, 2013, s. 81—86. Huniovskyi graduated from the

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and

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Theological Seminaries. On 2 September 1906, he was ordained a priest by Bishop

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. He served as the fourth (1906–1909), third (1909–1910) cathedral staff member and catechist at the separate school on Knihynyn-Hirka in

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(now Ivano-Frankivsk), and from 1911 in Chortkiv, where he was a staff member of the Church of the Dormition and a catechist at the teacher's seminary and a private gymnasium. During the period of the

, he headed the Chortkiv District National Council. In 1920, he was appointed as a superior in the village of Ozeriany of the Skala Deanery. From 1921 he was at the parish in the village of

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, where he founded a cooperative, a drama club, and the mixed choir "

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". On 24 November 1924, he was granted the right to wear a

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, named the mayor of Skalskyi and made a school commissioner. After the beginning of the oppression of the Greek Catholic Church, he held services in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast underground. In 1947, he was arrested by the Borshchiv District Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Article 54-10 of the Criminal Code of the

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). According to the decision of the Ombudsman's Office of the USSR Ministry of State Security, he was exiled to

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. He was released in 1956 and returned to western Ukraine. Later he lived in Borshchiv. He wrote spiritual songs and carols and was acquainted with the Ukrainian writer

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i. He played the zither well, for which he wrote down notes. Hunovskyi died in May 1961 in

. He was buried with his wife in the village of Lanivtsi near BorshchivЛист Борщівської міської ради від 26.04.2023 r. No. 41/0310. (according to other sources – in BorshchivЗахідноукраїнська Народна Республіка 1918—1923. Енциклопедія : у 4 т., редкол.: М. Кугутяк та ін., Івано-Франківськ : ПП «Манускрипт-Львів», 2019, Т. 2 : З — О, s. 590, ISBN невідомо.).

Family

In 1906, he married Olena Radzykevych, the daughter of Oleksandr Radzykevych. Together they raised seven children: Nadiia, Bohdan, Mariia, Dariia, Sofia, Volodymyr-Rostyslav, and Hanna (wife of at. Antonii Kaznovskyi's son Stepan).

Honoring the memory

A plaque in honor of at. Oleksandr Ulianytskyi and at. Oleksii Hunovskyi was installed on the facade of the Greek Catholic Church of Saint Michael church in Lanivtsi.

References

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