2 Hryvni Yosyp Slipyi

Yosyp Slipyi served as Major Archbishop of Lviv and later Cardinal, spending eighteen years in Soviet labor camps following his 1945 arrest before being released in 1963 under diplomatic pressure from Pope John XXIII and the Kennedy administration. He spent the remainder of his life in Rome, founding the Ukrainian Catholic University there in 1963 and never returning to Ukraine. He died in 1984 — five years before the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was even permitted to resurface legally on Soviet territory.