Pavol Peter Gojdič
Greek Catholic Basilian monk (1888-1960) · Czechia · On the map · Religious Figures · Died at 72
Pavel Peter Gojdič, OSBM, was a Rusyn Basilian monk who served as Eparch of Prešov in the Slovak Greek Catholic Church. Following the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état, he was arrested by the StB, the secret police of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, and imprisoned on charges of high treason.
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Despite promises of immediate release if he would agree to become patriarch of the Orthodox Church in Czechoslovakia, Gojdič died at Leopoldov Prison as a prisoner of conscience in 1960.
