function

diocesan priest

creed

Armenian Catholic Church
more on: en.wikipedia.org [access: 2013.05.19]

diocese / province

Lviv archdiocese
more on: en.wikipedia.org [access: 2013.05.19]

honorary titles

protonotary apostolic
more on: en.wikipedia.org [access: 2014.11.22]
honorary canon (Lviv Armenian cathedral)
more on: en.wikipedia.org [access: 2014.11.14], en.wikipedia.org [access: 2014.11.14]
provost (Lviv Armenian cathedral)
more on: en.wikipedia.org [access: 2015.03.01], en.wikipedia.org [access: 2014.11.14]

date and place of death

18.11.1954

MinLag labour camp
Abez, Komi rep., Russia

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the II World War, after start of German occupation following German attack in 06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, Russians, worked to save Jews issue false birth certificates. On 13.04.1943 arrested by the Germans. Release though thanks to a bribe and Greek Catholic Abp Andrew Szeptycki’s intervention. After German defeat and start of another Russian occupation arrested by the Russians on 26/27.11.1945 in Lviv. Accused of, among others, „complicity in forming Armenian nationalist organisation for fighting against Russians, striving to detach Armenia from Russia, acting as an agent for the German Gestapo, contacts with the Vatican and Polish intelligence services”. On 08/09.03.1946 sentenced to 10 years of forced slave labour in Russian concentration camps Gulag. Transported to a concentration camp n. Stalinsk (Donetsk). Next at the beginning of 1950 transported to MinLag concentration camp in Komi republic where reached on 18.04.1950 and where perished.

alt. details of death

Poisoned according to some sources.

cause of death

extermination

perpetrators

Russians

date and place of birth

08.04.1878

Tyshkivtsi
Horodenka rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano-Frankivsk obl., Ukraine

presbyter (holy orders)/
ordination

05.07.1903

positions held

1939–1945 — administrator {dioc.: Lviv (Armenian)}
1938–1939 — vicar {parish: Lviv; dioc.: Lviv (Armenian); of cathedral chapter}
from 1922 — chancellor {Lviv, Diocesan Curia; dioc.: Lviv (Armenian)}
from 1930 — vice president {Lviv, Archdiocesan Union of Armenians}
1935–1938 — Editor in Chief {Armenian scientific monthly, „Gregoriana”}
1927–1935 — Editor in Chief {monthly, „Messenger of St Gregory”}
dean {dean.: Lviv; Armenian}
from 1923 — parish priest {parish: Lviv; Armenian}
from 1912 — parish priest {parish: Sniatyn; Armenian}
1911–1912 — administrator {parish: Sniatyn; Armenian}
1909–1911 — vicar {parish: Lviv, Armenian cathedral Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary}, prefect
1908–1911 — prefect {Lviv, Joseph Torosiewicz's Scientific Institute}
from 1904 — religious {Jarosław, Franciscan Order}, minister
from 1903 — religious {Cracow, Franciscan Order}, deputy head of clerical students
1900–1903 — student {Lviv, theology; monastery}
till 1900 — student {Cracow, philosophy; monastery}
from 1898 — student {Przemyśl, philosophy; monastery}
1897–1898 — religious {Jarosław, monastery}
1896–1897 — novitiate {Wieliczka, monastery}
1896–1908 — religious {Reformed Franciscans Order}

others related in death

ŁAKOTA Gregory, OLEŃSKI Peter (Fr Paul), OSADCA Michael, AGOPSOWICZ Bogdan, BOGDANOWICZ de ROSCO Adam Henry, PRYLIŃSKI Leszek, RZEPKO-ŁASKI Stanislaus

murder sites
camps (+ prisoner no)

Abez: Penal GUŁAG camp 274/17 „B” in a village Abez on Usa river, by the Pechorska train line (Kotlas—Vorkuta) in Russian Komi republic (beyond Arctic Circle) belonging to various complexes of slave labour concentration camps: SevPechLag (1940‑50), MinLag (1948‑57) and PechorLag (1950‑9). Prisoners slaved at coal transport form Vorkuta mines, goods shipments, aforementioned railway line construction, including bridge over Usa river. It contained a „central hospital” for those camps, including totally exhausted inmates of VorkutLag. (more on: zeslaniec.pl [access: 2013.08.10], gulagmuseum.org [access: 2014.11.14])

MinLag: Special GULAG camp No1 — Mineral (MinLag) — in Russian Komi republic, with a centre in Inta (beyond Arctic Circle). Founded on 28.02.1948 on the territory formerly under IntaLag concentration camp control. Disbanded on 06.08.1957 (when was incorporated into PechorLag camp system). Prisoners slaved in coal mines, mining gold and quartz, at road construction, brick making, etc. (more on: ipn.gov.pl [access: 2013.08.10], www.sciesielski.republika.pl [access: 2013.08.10])

VorkutLag: Russian complex of concentration camps and forced labour camp (part of Gulag penal system), near Vorkuta in Komi republic, created on 10.15.1938 — as a result of the split of larger UktpechLag complex of camps — where Russians held many Poles prisoners. Up to 75,000 (at peak — in 1950‑1 — c. 100,000) prisoners slaved there mainly in coal mines. In the most tragic 1943 c. 15.5% of prisoners held in the camp perished. Total number of victims of Vorkuta camps remains unknown. (more on: pl.wikipedia.org [access: 2014.05.09])

Gulag: Network of Russian slave labour concentration camps. At any given time up to 12 mln inmates where held in them, milions perished. (more on: pl.wikipedia.org [access: 2014.05.09], en.wikipedia.org [access: 2014.05.09])

Help to the Jews: During II World War on the Polish occupied territories Germans forbid to give any support to the Jews under penalty of death. Hundreds of Polish priests and religious helped the Jews despite this official sanction. Many of them were caught and murdered. (more on: www.naszdziennik.pl [access: 2013.08.31])

Ribbentrop-Molotov: Genocidal Russian–German alliance pact between Russian leader Joseph Stalin and German leader Adolf Hitler signed on 23.08.1939 in Moscow by respective foreign ministers, Mr. Vyacheslav Molotov for Russia and Joachim von Ribbentrop for Germany. The pact sanctioned and was the direct cause of joint Russian and German invasion of Poland and the outbreak of the II World War in 09.1939. „The war was one of the greatest calamities and dramas of humanity in history, for two atheistic and anti–Christian ideologies — national and international socialism — rejected God and His fifth Decalogue commandment: Thou shall not kill!” (Abp Stanislaus Gądecki, 01.09.2019). The decisions taken — backed up by the betrayal of the formal allies of Poland, France and Germany, which on 12.09.1939, at a joint conference in Abbeville, decided not to provide aid to attacked Poland and not to take military action against Germany (a clear breach of treaty obligations with Poland) — were on 28.09.1939 slightly altered and made more precise when a treaty on „German–Russian boundaries and friendship” was agreed by the same murderous signatories. One of its findings was establishment of spheres of influence in Central and Eastern Europe and in consequence IV partition of Poland. In one of its secret annexes agreed, that: „the Signatories will not tolerate on its respective territories any Polish propaganda that affects the territory of the other Side. On their respective territories they will suppress all such propaganda and inform each other of the measures taken to accomplish it”. The agreements resulted in a series of meeting between two genocidal organization representing both sides — German Gestapo and Russian NKVD when coordination of efforts to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and Polish leading classes (in Germany called Intelligenzaktion, in Russia took the form of Katyń massacres) where discussed. Resulted in deaths of hundreds of thousands of Polish intelligentsia, including thousands of priests presented here, and tens of millions of ordinary people,. The results of this Russian–German pact lasted till 1989 and are still in evidence even today. (more on: en.wikipedia.org [access: 2015.09.30])

sources

personal:
www.wiki.ormianie.pl [access: 2013.01.26], pl.wikipedia.org [access: 2013.06.23]
bibliograhical:
„Schematismus Universi Saecularis et Regularis Cleri Archi Diaeceseos Metropol. Leopol. Rit. Lat.”, Lviv Metropolitan Curia, from 1860 till 1938
original images:
jnaumowicz.wnhis.uksw.edu.pl [access: 2014.11.22], www.wiki.ormianie.pl [access: 2014.11.22], isakowicz.pl [access: 2018.09.02], www.wiki.ormianie.pl [access: 2018.09.02], archiwum.ormianie.pl [access: 2018.09.02], jnaumowicz.wnhis.uksw.edu.pl [access: 2014.11.22], wiki.ormianie.pl [access: 2014.05.09], wiki.ormianie.pl [access: 2014.05.09], ipn.gov.pl [access: 2019.02.02]