Viktor Danilov, Greek-Catholic priest and Soviet dissident, Died at 89

Viktor Danilov was born on July 20, 1927, and died on December 7, 2016.

He was a parish priest of the Greek Catholic parish in Grodno.

He was the dean of the Belarusian Greek Catholic Church, chaplain.

He was also a writer in Soviet times and religious dissident.

He was born into a family of doctors.

He received education at the Yaroslavl Pedagogical Institute.

During 1976, Viktor Danilov was secretly ordained a priest in Lviv by Metropolitan Volodymyr Sterniuk

Viktor Danilov passed away at 89 years old.