Nicholas Ilkov
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Nicholas Ilkov (Polish: Mikołaj Ilków, Ukrainian: Mikola Іlkіv, born on 10 December 1890 - died in 1940, Katyn) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest.
Biography
Ilkov was born on 10 December 1890 in a peasant family in Kalush Raion, Ukraine, being of Orthodox religion. In 1919, after graduating from the seminary, ordained a Catholic priest of the Byzantine rite. From 1927 Ilkov served in the Diocese of Lviv, and in 1939 became a chaplain with the rank of major general and military administrator of the parish in Łódź. After the outbreak of World War II he was in eastern Poland. In 1939, he was arrested and became a prisoner of war in Starobelsk and Kozielsku camps. In 1940, Ilkov was shot in Katyn.
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