The papers consist of letters and photographs sent to Bohdan Kozak by Bishop Myroslav Ripetskyi of Chrzanowo, Suwalki voivodeship, Poland. Myroslav Ripetskyi was ordained to the priesthood in 1913. He was appointed pastor to the parish of St. John the Baptist in Lisky in 1921, where he remained until June 1947, when he was deported along with the rest of the Ukrainian population to northeastern Poland. There he organized a chapel in Chrzanowo and was until 1957 the only priest to celebrate mass in the Ukrainian Catholic rite in Warmia diocese. He was mitered by Cardinal I. Slipyi in 1966. Besides his pastoral duties, Ripetskyi contributed articles to Nova zoria, Pravda, and Ukrainskyi beskyd, and published books on Ukrainian church, secular, and cultural history. The letters are general in nature, describing some of the events and publications that occupied Bishop Ripetskyi's time. The photographs show several significant events that took place at Bishop Ripetskyi's Ukrainian Catholic chapel in Chrzanowo.
Scope: 1928, 1961, 1967-1974
Size: 2 folders
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