During 193031. the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church was desecrated and ruined in a most barbarous manner. Thirtyfour archbishops and bishops. and more than 3.000 priests along with 75yearold Metropolitan Lepkivsky at their head. were unjustly arrested. sentenced. without public hearing or trial. to slavelabor camps. where they later died. Hundreds of thousands of faithful. priests were inhumanly tortured in prisons or deported to camps in Siberia. a greater part of these innocent people died martyrs to their faith. the remainder still endures the appalling trials and hardships of imprisonment. The archibishops and bishops who died as martyrs are as follows: Metropolitans: Wasil Lepkivsky. Mykola Boresky.
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