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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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  • PROTASIEWICZ Theodos (Fr Teophan); source: Fr Gregory Sosna, M. Antonina Troc-Sosna, „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”, Warsaw-Bielsk Podlaski 2017, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOPROTASIEWICZ Theodos (Fr Teophan)
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surname

PROTASIEWICZ

forename(s)

Theodos (pl. Teodozy)

religious forename(s)

Teophan (pl. Teofan)

  • PROTASIEWICZ Theodos (Fr Teophan) - Commemorative plaque, John Klimak orthodox church, Warsaw, source: pl.wikipedia.org, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOPROTASIEWICZ Theodos (Fr Teophan)
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function

religious cleric

creed

Eastern Orthodox Church ORmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

Warsaw-Radom OR eparchy (Autocephalous Orthodox Church in the Generalgouvernement AOC—GG)
Warsaw-Chełm OR eparchy (Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PAOC)
Pińsk-Polesia OR eparchy (Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PAOC)more on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]

academic distinctions

Sacred Orthodox Theology MA
Law MA

honorary titles

Order of the Crown (Romania) 2nd Class – Grand Officermore on
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[access: 2021.05.30]

date and place
of death

05.08.1944

Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after start of German occupation, ministered in Warsaw.

Perished at the beginning of Warsaw Uprising 08‑10.1944, murdered in a Warsaw–Wola residents massacre, on the St John Klimak's Orthodox parish churchyard, among c. 40‑100 people, including women and children (including his wife and 5‑year‑old son).

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

11.11.1896

Arančycytoday: Linovo ssov., Pruzhany dist., Brest reg., Belarus
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religious vows

23.10.1933 (permanent)

positions held

01.08.1939 – 1944

parish priest — WarsawWola district
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland

more on
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[access: 2022.08.05]
⋄ St John Klimak OR church — also: from 21.02.1940 member of the Temporary Council of Orthodox Bishops, convened after start of the World War II and the German occupation in part of Poland in 09.1939

16.08.1932 – c. 1939

membership — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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⋄ Spiritual Orthodox Consistory — membership confirmed on 16.08.1932; also: organizer and temporary director of the Orthodox Theological High School and from 11.04.1935 of the Metropolitan Boarding Hall in Warsaw (not fully opened due to the outbreak of World War II), spiritual director of the Brotherhood of Orthodox Theologians, chairman of the Metropolitan Missionary Committee, member of the committee for translating Orthodox liturgical books into Polish, secretary general of the Charitable Society, collaborator of the „Week” weekly, founder and chairman of the League of Air and Anti–Gas Defense

from c. 1933

steward — WarsawPraga district on the right bank of Vistula
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland

more on
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[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ St Mary Magdalene Equal–to–the–Apostles OR cathedral church — administrator on behalf of the nominal parish priest i.e. bishop

24.10.1933

Archimandrite, i.e. superior abbot — Pochaivtoday: Pochaiv urban hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.09.27]
⋄ Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PACP ⋄ Dormition of the Mother of God OR monastery (Pochaiv Lavra) — dignity conferment

23.10.1933

hieromonk — Pochaivtoday: Pochaiv urban hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.09.27]
⋄ Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PACP ⋄ Dormition of the Mother of God OR monastery (Pochaiv Lavra) — monk ordination

01.05.1932

protoiereus (Eng. first priest) — Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PACP — dignity conferment

c. 1932

first vicar — WarsawPraga district on the right bank of Vistula
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland

more on
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[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ St Mary Magdalene Equal–to–the–Apostles OR cathedral church

from 20.10.1930

steward — WarsawPraga district on the right bank of Vistula
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland

more on
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[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ St Mary Magdalene Equal–to–the–Apostles OR cathedral church — administrator on behalf of the nominal parish priest i.e. bishop, till 07.10.1930 acting („ad interim”) parish priest (after joining the Warsaw–Chełm eparchy on 06.10.1930); also: eparchial missionary (27.10.1930‑30.01.1934), clerk of the Eparchy's Consistory for catechesis (from od 24.11.1930), until 15.08.1931 prefect of the gymnasium (referred as the „Russian Gymnasium”), on 15.08.1931‑27.11.1931 supernumerary member of the Consistory of the Orthodox Warsaw–Chełm eparchy

c. 1930

prefect — Pinsktoday: Pinsk city dist., Brest reg., Belarus
more on
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⋄ State Gymnasium — also: from 30.08.1930 acting („ad interim”) supernumerary member of the Consistory of the Pińsk–Polesia eparchy

c. 1927 – 1930

student — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ Orthodox Theology Department, [University of Warsaw (from 1945) / clandestine University (1939‑1945) / Joseph Piłsudski University (1935‑1939) / University of Warsaw (1915‑1935) / Imperial University of Warsaw (1870‑1915)] — postgraduate specialised studies, crowned with the title of master of sacred Orthodox theology

02.01.1925 – 15.08.1927

dean — Podorosktoday: Podorosk ssov., Vawkavysk dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
more on
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OR deanery — earlier: from 23.07.1924 acting („ad interim”)

from 01.11.1923

parish priest — Zeľvatoday: Zeľva dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
more on
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[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ Holy Trinity OR parish ⋄ Podorosktoday: Podorosk ssov., Vawkavysk dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
more on
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[access: 2024.01.26]
OR deanery — acting („ad interim”)

till 1918

student — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ law, Sankt Petersburg Imperial University — postgraduate specialised studies, crowned with Law MA

author, i.a. a monograph devoted to the Pochayiv Lavra (Warsaw, 1930), a study entitled „St Theophanes, the Hermit Vyshensky, the image of an Orthodox priest” (Warsaw, 1934)

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BEDNARZClick to display biography Francis (Bro. Josaphat), BOGACZClick to display biography Steven (Bro. Steven), DOLEŻALClick to display biography Ferdinand, DOLIŃSKIClick to display biography Thaddeus, DUDAClick to display biography Felix (Bro. Aquinas), DZIERZGWAClick to display biography Marian, GÓRSKIClick to display biography Edmund, JACHIMOWSKIClick to display biography Thaddeus Julian, KACZEWSKIClick to display biography Francis, KALISZEWICZClick to display biography Anthony, KANIAClick to display biography Joseph, KAPUSTAClick to display biography Joseph, KOLAKClick to display biography Stanislav (Bro. Bogumil), KOTYŃSKIClick to display biography Henry, KRYGIERClick to display biography Mieczyslav, KRZYWIŃSKIClick to display biography Stanislav (Bro. Raphael), KULESZAClick to display biography Stanislav, MAJGIERClick to display biography Francis, MALISZClick to display biography Vladislav, MĄCZKAClick to display biography Stanislav, MIKOŁAJSKIClick to display biography Leo (Bro. Ambrose), MOTYKAClick to display biography Boleslav, MÜLLERClick to display biography Thaddeus, NOWAKOWSKIClick to display biography John, PALEWSKIClick to display biography Joseph, PONIEWIERSKIClick to display biography Joseph (Bro. Philip), RACZKOClick to display biography Raphael, ROMANClick to display biography Louis (Bro. Cornelius), RUCIŃSKIClick to display biography Anthony, SANIKOWSKI–DZIEGIEĆClick to display biography Leonard, SZYMLIKClick to display biography John, SZYMSKIClick to display biography Anthony, ŚWIERCZEKClick to display biography John Nepomucene, TRZECIAKClick to display biography Stanislav Kostka, WERESZCZYŃSKIClick to display biography Bronislav, ZASADNIClick to display biography Francis

murder sites
camp 
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Wola district massacres: Mass extermination of the inhabitants of Warsaw Wola and Ochota districts, perpetrated by the Germans in the first days of Warsaw Uprising. Approx. 38,000‑65,000 Poles, men, women and children were massacred (the peak of the barbarian killings took place on 05‑07.08.1944). The massacre — genocide in fact — was in direct response to Adolf Hitler’s order to crash and destroy Warsaw and kill all of its citizens and was perpetrated by German SS units and Russian SS RONA units (with Belarusian contingent) collaborating with them. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19]
)

Warsaw Uprising: Lasted from 01.08.1944 till 03.10.1944. Was an attempt to liberate Polish capital from occupying Germans by the Polish Clandestine State — a unique in the history of the world political structure on the territories occupied by the Germans, effectively governing clandestinely in Poland — and by fighting on its behalf underground military units, mainly of Home Army (former Armed Struggle Association ZWZ) and National Armed Forced (NSZ). At the same time Russians stopped on purpose the offensive on all front, halted on the other bank of Vistula river and watched calmly the annihilation of the city, refusing even the mid–landing rights to the Allied planes carrying weapons and supplies to the insurgents from Italy. During the Uprising Germans murdered approx. 200,000 Poles, mainly civilians. Approx. 200 priests and nuns died in fighting or were murdered by the Germans, many in mass executions. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.17]
)

General Governorate: A separate administrative territorial region set up by the Germans in 1939 after defeat of Poland, which included German‑occupied part of Polish territory that was not directly incorporate into German state. Created as the result of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, in a political sense, was to recreate the German idea of 1915 (after the defeat of the Russians in the Battle of Gorlice in 05.1915 during World War I) of establishing a Polish enclave within Germany (also called the General Governorate at that time). It was run by the Germans till 1945 and final Russian offensive, and was a part of so–called Big Germany — Grossdeutschland. Till 31.07.1940 formally known as Germ. Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete (Eng. General Governorate for occupied Polish territories) — later as simply niem. Generalgouvernement (Eng. General Governorate). From 07.1941 expanded to include district Galicia. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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)

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 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.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.09.30]
)

sources

personal:
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[access: 2023.07.16]

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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