Omelyan Kovch
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Blessed Оmelyan Kovch (*August 20, 1884 — †March 25 1944) - Ukrainian Greek-Catholic priest.
He was born in a peasant family in the village Tlumach in the Kosiv region in Western Ukraine, and was ordained in 1911 after graduating from the Sts. Sergius and Bacchus College in Rome. He served as a parish priest from 1921 to 1943 at the church of St.Nicholas in the village of Peremyshliany, and was the father of six children.
In the spring of 1943 he was arrested by the Gestapo for harboring Jews. On March 25 1944 he was gassed and burnt at Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin (Poland).
On the 9th of September 1999 Jewish Council of Ukraine awarded him the title of «Ukraine's righteous».
His beatification took place July 27, 2001 in Lviv during the Byzantine rite liturgy conducted by the Pope John Paul II.
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