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ThDr. Ján Murín (born January 12, 1913) was Slovak Greek-Catholic priest, theologist, scout, elementary and high school teacher of religious education, co-founder of St. Cyril and Methodius Society, a cultural-religious organization found in May 1941 in Michalovce. In 1948–1989, he was persecuted by Czechoslovak communist regime, which officialy dissolved Greek-Catholic church to swift it under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate, thus disbaning church's union with Vatican.

Murín was born as the eight out of nine children of Greek-Catholic cartwright, who was later member of Slovak Peoples' Party. In 1919–1924 Murín attended five grades of local elementary school, then he continued on Czechoslovak Real Gymnasium in Košice (1924–1925) and later Czechoslovak Real Gymnasium in Michalovce (1925–1933). During his student years, he became a member of Scouting Movement. After graduation Murín started working as teacher on elementary school (1933–1934), in order to save enough money to study theology.

In 1934, he started studying on Greek-Catholic seminary in Uzhhorod in Subcarphatian Rus. After he had gained scholarship to study on St. Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology in Olomouc, he graduated there in 1938. Murín married Magda neé Mihalovičová on November 12, 1939; later they had two children. He was ordained on November 21, 1939 in Štefurovo near Prešov. Shortly after arrival from Olomouc, the director of Czecho-slovak Real Gymnasium in Michalovce.