Andrei Sheptytsky

Full name Roman Maria Aleksander Sheptytsky; he came from an ancient Ruthenian (Ukrainian) family of counts.

Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky directly spoke out against the persecution of Jews in appeals both to the faithful and directly to the Nazi leadership.

On January 21, 2020, Chief Rabbi of Ukraine Moshe Reuven Azman sent a letter to the head of the Israeli institute Yad Vashem, Avner Shalev, asking that Andrei Sheptytsky be granted the honorary status of "Righteous Among the Nations".

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