Viktor Danilov

Viktor Danilov (20 July 1927 – 7 December 2016) was a parish priest of the Greek Catholic parish in Grodno, dean of the Belarusian Greek Catholic Church, chaplain, writer in Soviet times and religious dissident. He was also a historian, teacher and researcher. becoming the first Greek Catholic priest in modern Belarus, and began a priestly ministry underground.

After Perestroika he began teaching religious education and theology in 1992 and in 1999, he was named archpriest and dean of the Greek Catholic Church in Belarus. Danilov and Teodor Shanin started a study on The Peasant Revolution in Russia in 1994; the study lasted for six years. They also started the scientific journal Russian Peasant Studies in 1996.

Personal life Danilov was married with a number of children and grandchildren. He died in Yaroslavl on 7 December 2016, aged 89.

Reading Leanid Marakou, Represavanyya litaratary, navukoўtsy, rabotnіkі asveta, gramadskiya i kulturnyya dzeyachy of Belarus, 1794-1991 (2003). Vladimir Kolupaev, Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference (19 November 2010), dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of the city of Yaroslavl. Yaroslavl: Remder (2011), pp. 221–26; Viktor Danilov, My way to God and to the Catholic Church. Grodno, (1997, 2003)