function

religious cleric

creed

Eastern Orthodox Church ORmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[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
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.05.30]

date and place
of death

05.08.1944

Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]

details of death

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Germans

sites and events

Wola district massacresClick to display the description, Warsaw UprisingClick to display the description, GeneralgouvernementClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

11.11.1896

Arančycytoday: Linovo ssov., Pruzhany dist., Brest reg., Belarus
more on
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[access: 2022.07.19]

religious vows

23.10.1933 (permanent)

positions held

others related
in death

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

sites and events
descriptions

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])

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 part of 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: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2024.12.13])

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
[access: 2015.09.30])

sources

personal:
pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19], polona.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[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
original images:
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[access: 2013.05.19]