Andriy Bandera

Andriy Mykhailovych Bandera (; 11 December 1882 – 10 July 1941) was a Ukrainian chaplain and politician. He was member of the Ukrainian National Rada of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic, a veteran of the Polish–Ukrainian War, a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and the father of Stepan Bandera.

Biography Andriy was born in 1882 in the then-Austro-Hungarian town of Stryj in the Lviv region in the family of Mykhailo and Yevfrosyniia Rosalia Beletska.

In 1898, Andriy Bandera graduated with honours from the 4th grade of the Imperial-Royal Stryj Gymnasium, and in 1899 from the 5th grade with the first degree. According to the report of the management of this institution, in 1902 he graduated from VIII grade, passed the final exams, and received a certificate of maturity (in electronic versions of articles about Priest Andriy Bandera in "Encyclopedia of Ukrainian History" and "Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine" is mentioned that graduation took place in 1905). Andriy Bandera graduated from the Faculty of Theology in Lviv University in 1906. In the same year, in November, he married the priest's daughter Miroslava Vladimirovna Glodzinskaya and was ordained.

He had an active political position during his studies at the gymnasium and joined the Ukrainian National Democratic Party. During the elections, Andriy was engaged in political explanatory work among the peasants and was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society since 1910. and voted for the Act of Unification. During the Polish-Ukrainian War, he voluntarily joined the Ukrainian Galician Army, where in 1919–1920 he served as chaplain of the 9th Regiment.

From 28 May to 8 June 1919, he lived with his family in Buchach ), and later moved to the village of Yahilnytsia (now Chortkiv district, Ternopil region. In the summer of 1920, he returned to Galicia to hide from Polish officials who were persecuting Ukrainian politicians.

In 1920–1930, Andriy was a parish priest in Uhrynów Stary (today Staryi Uhryniv), and in 1930–1936 he was a pastor in the village of Volya-Zaderevatsk, and later, in 1936–1941 the pastor of the village of Trostyanets of Dolyna district.

On the night of 22–23 May, or 23 May 1941, he was arrested as "the father of the head of the Kraków Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists center, Stepan Bandera,"

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