Ukrainian Catholic leader hails 20th-century nationalist leader as remains repatriated
August 17, 2026
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CWN Editor's Note: The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church paid tribute to Ukrainian nationalist leader Yevhen Konovalets (1891-1938), who was assassinated in the Netherlands by a Soviet agent.
Konovalets “was someone who never lost hope, even when historical circumstances—particularly in the 1920s and 1930s—seemed to have put an end to the Ukrainians’ struggle for an independent, free, and united Ukrainian state,” Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk preached yesterday at the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv, upon the repatriation of Konovalets’s remains to Ukraine.
“And today, as we pray for his eternal rest, asking the Lord God for forgiveness of his sins and transgressions and for God’s boundless mercy, we are called, together with you, to once again heed the voice of history as a teacher of life,” he added.
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