RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Pavel Peter Gojdič

1888 - 1960

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Pavel Peter Gojdič (also known as Pavol Gojdič or Peter Gojdič; 17 July 1888 — 17 July 1960), was a Rusyn Basilian monk and the eparch of the Slovak Greek Catholic Eparchy of Prešov. 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. 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. Following the 1989 Velvet Revolution, Gojdič was posthumously honoured by post-communist Czechoslovakian President Vaclav Havel and beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2001. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pavel Peter Gojdič is the 2,224th most popular religious figure (down from 2,110th in 2019), the 118th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 114th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Slovak Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Pavel Peter Gojdič ranks 2,224 out of 3,187. Before him are Bill W., Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini, Emma Tillman, Oswald Gracias, Bernard Panafieu, and Anna Filosofova. After him are Toribio Ticona Porco, Cheng Yen, Yeshe Tsogyal, Adrian of Canterbury, Telesphore Toppo, and Paul Augustin Mayer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Pavel Peter Gojdič ranks 135. Before him are Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira, Walther Kossel, Nereu Ramos, Harukichi Hyakutake, Antonio Ascari, and Irving Cummings. After him are Louis J. Mordell, Kan Kikuchi, Toyohiko Kagawa, Gazanfar Musabekov, Thomas C. Kinkaid, and Lotte Lehmann. Among people deceased in 1960, Pavel Peter Gojdič ranks 108. Before him are Sylvia Pankhurst, Adone Zoli, Frank Elmore Ross, Roy Chapman Andrews, Erich Neumann, and Zora Neale Hurston. After him are Maud Menten, Eduard Pütsep, Yury Olesha, Joseph Vendryes, Friedrich Kirchner, and Melvin Purvis.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Pavel Peter Gojdič ranks 118 out of 418. Before him are Frederick Stafford (1928), Maroš Šefčovič (1966), Géza von Radványi (1907), Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau (1856), Zoltán Halmay (1881), and Václav Ježek (1923). After him are Alexander Dukhnovych (1803), Vladimír Weiss (1939), Viliam Široký (1902), Jaroslav Pollák (1947), Marián Masný (1950), and Kálmán Mikszáth (1847).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Slovakia

Among religious figures born in Slovakia, Pavel Peter Gojdič ranks 6. Before him are Elizabeth of Hungary (1207), Matthew III Csák (1260), Jozef Tomko (1924), Ján Chryzostom Korec (1924), and Juraj Haulik (1788). After him are Anna Kolesárová (1928), János Csernoch (1852), János Scitovszky (1785), Ján Babjak (1953), and Laurus Škurla (1928).

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