He was born on 17 July 1888 in Ruske Pek\u013eany in the family of a Greek-Catholic priest Stefan Gojdi\u010d and his wife Anne Gerbery. He studied theology in Pre\u0161ov and Budapest. In 1911 he was ordained a priest in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Pre\u0161ov. Subsequently, he worked in Cige\u013eka and Pre\u0161ov. On July 20, 1922, he entered the Basilian monastery on \u010cerne\u010d Mountain near Muka\u010devo, where he took the monastic name \u201ePavel\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1926 he was appointed apostolic administrator of the Pre\u0161ov eparchy. He was consecrated bishop on 25 March 1927 in the Basilica of St. Clement in Rome by Bishop Dion\u00fdz Ny\u00e1radi of Kri\u017eevac, who had been the Apostolic Administrator of Pre\u0161ov until then. On 8 August 1940, he was enthroned in Pre\u0161ov as the resident bishop of Pre\u0161ov, and on 15 January 1946, his jurisdiction over the Greek Catholics in the whole of Czechoslovakia was confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When after 1948 the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia undertook to abolish the Greek Catholic Church in Slovakia, following the example of the USSR, on April 28, 1950, during the anti-church action called the \u201ePre\u0161ov Sobor\u201c, vladyka Gojdi\u010d was arrested and interned, and at the same time the Greek Catholic Church was administratively abolished as well. In a fabricated trial, Gojdi\u010d was sentenced to life imprisonment along with Bishops Vojta\u0161\u0161\u00e1k and Buzalek for treason. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He died as a result of torture and ill-treatment in Leopold Prison on 17 July 1960, on his 72nd birthday. He was buried in the prison cemetery and his grave was marked only with the number 681.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On 29 October 1968, his remains were exhumed and taken to Pre\u0161ov and placed in the Chapel of the Apostles Peter and Paul. Since 1990 they have been kept in a sarcophagus in the chapel of the Greek Catholic Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Pre\u0161ov. On 4 November 2001, Paul Petro Gojdi\u010d was beatified by Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. On the occasion of the 7th anniversary of the establishment of independent Slovakia, Bishop Pavol Petro Gojdi\u010d was awarded the Pribina Cross of the First Class in memoriam by the Government of the Slovak Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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