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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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religious status

saint

surname

OHRYZKO

forename(s)

Peter (pl. Piotr)

canonisation date

07.06.2003

Saint Council of the Bishops of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Churchmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.12.07]

function

presbiter (i.e. iereus)

creed

Eastern Orthodox Church ORmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

Chełm‐Podlachia OR eparchy (Autocephalous Orthodox Church in the Generalgouvernement AOC‐GG)more on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]

Warsaw‐Chełm OR eparchy (Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PAOC)
Volyn OR eparchy (Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PAOC)more on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]

date and place
of death

10.04.1944

Czartowiectoday: Tyszowce gm., Tomaszów Lubelski pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]

alt. dates and places
of death

19.04.1944

details of death

In 1927 his wife was accused of communist sympathies and arrested by the Polish authorities. Accused of supporting her and removed from the parish. Sent to the monastery in Zahajce for a year. After a year, returned, but the marriage broke up.

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and the beginning of World War II, his parish Młyny was initially under German occupation, but soon — in accordance with German–Russian allied agreements, known as the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pacts — it found itself under Russian occupation as a border village.

Prob. then found himself under German occupation.

Few times the victim of robberies.

During genocide of Poles known as «Genocidium Atrox», perpetrated by the Ukrainian genocidal OUN/UPA organisations, murdered by unknown perpetrators, during celebration of the Holy Mass, in his parish filial church.

Dragged out of church, in his vestments.

Marched through the village.

Tortured — by an unknown — impersonating Polish unit — partisans.

The body was burnt.

alt. details of death

It is likely that the crime was committed by the so‐called UPA International Legion, that on 05.03.1944 crossed over from Volyn to the Chełm region.

According to Orthodox sources, it was mainly composed of „Asians, former soldiers of the [Russian] Red Army, assisted by 'guides'”.

The latter were supposed to be „criminals”, but could also be members of the genocidal UPA.

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Ukrainians / Poles / Russians

sites and events

«Genocidium Atrox»Click to display the description, GeneralgouvernementClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

18.11.1891

Tarnawatkatoday: Tarnawatka gm., Tomaszów Lubelski pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.08.20]

alt. dates and places
of birth

18.01.1891

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

16.12.1923

positions held

1943 – 1944

parish priest — Czartowiectoday: Tyszowce gm., Tomaszów Lubelski pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]
⋄ Transfiguration of the Lord OR church ⋄ Tyszowcetoday: Tyszowce gm., Tomaszów Lubelski pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.09.24]
OR deanery — in 1943, the Germans, in accordance with the centuries–old tradition of Germanization of Poland and Poles, recognizing Poland as a temporary country and the Chełm region where the village of Czartowiec is located as part of the then non–existent Ukraine, forcibly handed over the local Catholic temple to the Orthodox Church

1943 – 1944

priest — Tyszowcetoday: Tyszowce gm., Tomaszów Lubelski pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.09.24]
⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary OR church ⋄ Tyszowcetoday: Tyszowce gm., Tomaszów Lubelski pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.09.24]
OR deanery — acting („ad interim”)

1943

priest — Zamchtoday: Obsza gm., Biłgoraj pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.29]
⋄ OR church ⋄ Biłgorajtoday: Biłgoraj urban gm., Biłgoraj pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.12.03]
OR deanery — in 1943, the Germans, in accordance with the centuries–old tradition of Germanization of Poland and Poles, recognizing Poland as a temporary country and the Chełm region where the village of Zamch is located as part of the then non–existent Ukraine, forcibly handed over the local Catholic temple to the Orthodox Church

1942 – 1943

priest — Czartowiectoday: Tyszowce gm., Tomaszów Lubelski pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]
⋄ Transfiguration of the Lord OR church ⋄ Tyszowcetoday: Tyszowce gm., Tomaszów Lubelski pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.09.24]
OR deanery

1942

priest — Chyżowicetoday: Uchanie gm., Hrubieszów pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.07.16]
⋄ OR church ⋄ Dubienkatoday: Dubienka gm., Chełm pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]
OR deanery

till 1942

priest — Czartowiectoday: Tyszowce gm., Tomaszów Lubelski pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]
⋄ Transfiguration of the Lord OR church ⋄ Tyszowcetoday: Tyszowce gm., Tomaszów Lubelski pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.09.24]
OR deanery — ministered prob. in private houses, including in nearby Muratyn, for from 1919 the Czartowiec church was in Catholic hands, taken over as part of the so‐called restitution action, i.e. the Catholic Church took back old temples, plundered by the Russians during the partitions of Poland and handed over to the Orthodox Church

c. 1939

resident — Sumintoday: Tarnawatka gm., Tomaszów Lubelski pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.07.16]
⋄ OR church — prob. ministered in private houses

till 1939

parish priest — Młynytoday: Radymno gm., Jarosław pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.07.16]
⋄ Intercession of the Mother of God OR church

parish priest — Markovychitoday: Skobelka hrom., Lutsk rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.07.16]
⋄ St Michael the Archangel OR church

from 1936

parish priest — Horodyshchetoday: Tsuman hrom., Lutsk rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ Nativity of Christ OR church ⋄ Lutsk 5th distr.Orthodox deanery name
today: Volyn, Ukraine

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
OR deanery

1935 – 1936

deputy parish priest — Sokiltoday: Sokul hrom., Lutsk rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.07.05]
⋄ Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary OR church

1935

deputy parish priest — Khorivtoday: Lokachi hrom., Volodymyr rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.07.16]
⋄ St Onuphrius OR church

1931 – 1935

parish priest — Peczirnatoday: Lanivtsi urban hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.07.16]
⋄ St Nicholas OR parish ⋄ Kremenets 5th distr.Orthodox deanery name
today: Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.10.18]
OR deanery

1929 – 1931

parish priest — Kopylyatoday: Kopylya hrom., Lutsk rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.07.16]
⋄ OR church ⋄ Lutsk 1st distr.Orthodox deanery name
today: Volyn, Ukraine

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
OR deanery

c. 1929

second presbiter (Eng. priest, i.e. iereus) — Luninetstoday: Luninets dist., Brest reg., Belarus
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ Exaltation of the Lord's Cross OR church — prob.

1928 – c. 1929

resident — Mali Zahaitsitoday: Velyki Dederkaly hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.07.16]
⋄ Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PACP ⋄ St John the Merciful OR monastery

1927 – 1928

parish priest — Buzhkovychitoday: Pavlivka hrom., Volodymyr rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.07.16]
⋄ Holiest Mother of God OR church

1924 – 1927

parish priest — Stavrivtoday: Pidloztsi hrom., Dubno rai., Rivne, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.07.16]
⋄ St Michael the Archangel OR church

1923 – 1924

parish priest — Oranitoday: Volodymyr urban hrom., Volodymyr rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.07.16]
⋄ OR church

16.12.1923

presbiter (Eng. priest, i.e. iereus) — Kremenetstoday: Kremenets urban hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.10.18]
⋄ Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PACP ⋄ Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PACP — priesthood cheirotonia, i.e. ordination, on 13.12.1923 preceded by deacon cheirotonia

till 1923

student — Kremenetstoday: Kremenets urban hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.10.18]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Orthodox Theological Seminary

divorcee — after his wife was arrested by the Polish authorities in 1927 and accused of supporting an illegal communist party; marriage in c. 1923

others related
in death

BAZYLUKClick to display biography James (monk Ignatius), HOLCClick to display biography Nicholas, KOROBCZUKClick to display biography Lew, MARTYSZClick to display biography Basil, PERADZEClick to display biography Gregory (Fr Gregory), SZWAJKOClick to display biography Paul, ZACHARCZUKClick to display biography Sergius

sites and events
descriptions

«Genocidium Atrox»: In 1939‐1947, especially in 1943‐1944, independent Ukrainian units, mainly belonging to genocidal Ukrainian organizations OUN (political arm) and UPA (military arm), supported by local Ukrainian population, murdered — often in extremely brutal way — in Volyn and surrounding regions of pre‐war Poland, from 130,000 to 180,000 Poles, all civilians: men, women, children, old and young. Polish‐Ukrainian conflict that openly emerged during and after World War I (in particular resulting in Polish‐Ukrainian war of 1918‐1919), that survived and even deepened later when western Ukraine became a part Poland, exploded again after the outbreak of the World War II in 09.1939. During Russian occupation of 1939‐1941, when hundreds of thousands of Poles were deported into central Russia, when tens of thousands were murdered (during so‐called Katyń massacres, among others), this open conflict had a limited character, helped by the fact that at that time Ukrainians, Ukrainian nationalists in particular, were also persecuted by the Russians. The worst came after German‐Russian war started on 22.06.1941 and German occupation resulted. Initially Ukrainians supported Germans (Ukrainian police was initiated, Ukrainians co—participated in extermination of the Jews and were joining army units fighting alongside Germans). Later when German ambivalent position towards Ukraine became apparent Ukrainians started acting independently. And in 1943 one of the units of aforementioned Ukrainian OUN/UPA organization, in Volyn, started and perpetrated a genocide of Polish population of this region. In mere few weeks OUN/UPA murdered, with Germans passively watching on the sidelines, more than 40,000 Poles. This strategy was consequently approved and adopted by all OUN/UPA organisations and similar genocides took place in Eastern Lesser Poland (part of Ukraine) where more than 20,000 Poles were slaughtered, meeting however with growing resistance from Polish population. Further west, in Chełm, Rzeszów, etc. regions this genocide turned into an extremely bloody conflict. In general genocide, perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists, partly collaborating with German occupants, on vulnerable Polish population took part in hundreds of villages and small towns, where virtually all Polish inhabitants were wiped out. More than 200 priests, religious and nuns perished in this holocaust — known as «Genocidium Atrox» (Eng. „savage genocide”) The nature and purpose of genocide is perhaps best reflected in the song sung by the murderers: „We will slaughter the Poles, we will cut down the Jews, we must conquer the great Ukraine” (ukr. „Поляків виріжем, Євреїв видусим, велику Україну здобути мусим”). This holocaust and conflict ended up in total elimination of Polish population and Polish culture from Ukraine, in enforced deportations in 1944‐1945 of remaining Poles from Ukraine and some Ukrainians into Ukraine proper, and finally in deportation of Ukrainians from East‐South to the Western parts of Polish republic prl by Commie‐Nazi Russian controlled Polish security forces („Vistula Action”). (more on: www.swzygmunt.knc.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.06.20]
)

Generalgouvernement: After the Polish defeat in the 09.1939 campaign, which was the result of the Ribbentrop‐Molotov Pact and constituted the first stage of World War II, and the beginning of German occupation in part of Poland (in the other, eastern part of Poland, the Russian occupation began), the Germans divided the occupied Polish territory into five main regions. In two of them new German provinces were created, two other were incorporated into other provinces. However, the fifth part was treated separately, and in a political sense it was supposed to recreate the German idea from 1915 (during World War I, after the defeat of the Russians in the Battle of Gorlice in 05.1915) of creating a Polish enclave within Germany. Illegal in the sense of international law, i.e. Hague Convention, and public law, managed by the Germans according to separate laws — especially established for the Polish Germ. Untermenschen (Eng. subhumans) — till the Russian offensive in 1945 it constituted the Germ. Großdeutschland (Eng. Greater Germany). Till 31.07.1940 formally called Germ. Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete (Eng. General Government for the occupied Polish lands) — later simply Germ. Generalgouvernement (Eng. General Governorate), as in the years 1915‐1918. From 07.1941, i.e. after the German attack on 22.06.1941 against the erstwhile ally, the Russians, it also included the Galicia district, i.e. the Polish pre‐war south‐eastern voivodeships. A special criminal law was enacted and applied to Poles and Jews, allowing for the arbitrary administration of the death penalty regardless of the age of the „perpetrator”, and sanctioning the use of collective responsibility. After the end of the military conflict of the World War UU, the government of the Germ. Generalgouvernement was recognized as a criminal organization, and its leader, governor Hans Frank, guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and executed. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.12.04]
)

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 World War II in 09.1939. In a political sense, the pact was an attempt to restore the status quo ante before 1914, with one exception, namely the „commercial” exchange of the so‐called „Kingdom of Poland”, which in 1914 was part of the Russian Empire, fore Eastern Galicia (today's western Ukraine), in 1914 belonging to the Austro‐Hungarian Empire. Galicia, including Lviv, was to be taken over by the Russians, the „Kingdom of Poland” — under the name of the General Governorate — Germany. The resultant „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 Stanislav 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.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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bibliographical:
Hierachy, clergy and employees of the Orthodox Church in the 19th‐21st centuries within the borders of the Second Polish Republic and post–war Poland”, Fr Gregory Sosna, M. Antonine Troc-Sosna, Warsaw–Bielsk Podlaski 2017
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