Wasyl Kushnir

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Wasyl "Basil" Kushnir OC (Ukrainian: Василь Михайлович Кушнір, romanized: Vasyl Mykailovych Kushnir; September 17, 1893 – September 25, 1979) was a Ukrainian priest and political activist who was elected as the president of the World Congress of Free Ukrainians (WCFU) from 1967 to 1969 and 1973 to 1978, and Ukrainian Canadian Committee (UCC) from 1940 to 1953 and 1959 to 1971. Kushnir was born on September 17, 1893, in Vikno, West Ukraine, and finished his high school education in Ternopil and Lviv. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army on the Italian front during World War I and spent three years in captivity. After passing via Odesa, he joined the Red Army and served in Vinnytsia and Kharkiv before fleeing to his hometown. He was a teacher in 1923–1924. Kushnir studied theology at the Theological Seminary in Lviv and the University of Innsbruck, Austria, after the war. In 1929, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity from the latter institution. He was a professor at the Theological Seminary in Stanislaviv, from 1930 until 1934. In May 1934, Kushnir immigrated to Canada and was ordained as a Ukrainian Catholic priest in Winnipeg. The customary Zeleni Svyata memorial service for fallen warriors, started in 1936 by Kushnir.