Ivan Lvovych Lypa (Ukrainian: Іван Львович Липа; February 24, 1865 – November 13, 1923) was a Ukrainian physician and politician who served as Ukrainian minister of Religious Affairs. He is a father of another Ukrainian political leader and physician Yurii Lypa. Ivan Lypa was born in Kerch, Taurida Governorate in a family of retired Imperial Russian army soldier, while his maternal line traces to Poltava region Cossacks who supported Ivan Mazepa. Ivan Lypa in a church-parochial school at the Greek John the Forerunner Church in Kerch. In 1878–1887 he studied at the Aleksandr Male Gymnasium in K