A man born in one empire, studied in Italy and Germany, came back to Lviv which was under Poland for his vocation, lived through the Second World War, was put in a GULAG for almost 20 years and freed by the efforts of an American President, a Vatican Pope and a Soviet Premier. This was Major Archbishop (and Patriarch for many Ukrainians) Josyf Slipyj - the successor of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. His life was embroiled in politics, but he remained apolitical but supremely Ukrainian. What influenced him, how did he react to his imprisonment and what role did he play once freed from the Soviet prison of nations? Find out in this episode which concludes the sort of trilogy of Ukrainian religious history.

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