Petro Verhun was born in 1890 at Horodok, near Lviv, the son of a carpenter. He fought in the First World War and in the Ukrainian army.
Petro Verhun was born in 1890 at Horodok, near Lviv, the son of a carpenter. He fought in the First World War and in the Ukrainian army. He studied theology in Prague and was ordained a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky in 1927.
He was sent to Berlin to care for Ukrainian Catholic emigrants and became Apostolic Visitator for Ukrainian Catholics in Germany.
In June 1945 the Soviets arrested him and deported him to Siberia. He died in a camp at Angarsk on February 7, 1957. John Paul II beatified him in 2001 with twenty-four other Ukrainian martyrs.
The Church has declared Petro Verhun Blessed.