Figol, Ivan

Figol, Ivan [Фіґоль, Іван; Figol'], b 4 May 1881 in Knihynyn near Stanyslaviv, Galicia, d 3 August 1933 in Lviv. Ukrainian Catholic priest, teacher, church and community figure; father of Atanas Figol. Figol was a catechist at gymnasiums in Kolomyia (1907–12) and Stanyslaviv (1912–28), and at the Ukrainian Academic Gymnasium of Lviv (1928–33). He helped organize Marian societies for youth and women and taught homiletics at the Greek Catholic Theological Academy in Lviv from 1929. Figol is the author of Ekzorty na nedili i sviata shkil'noho roku (Spiritual Exercises for Sundays and Holy Days during the School Year, 2 parts, 1928–9; reprinted as Propovidi dlia molodi [Sermons for Youth, Rome 1981]). He contributed to the religious journals Nyva and Bohosloviia.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]