function

presbiter (i.e. iereus)

creed

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

diocese / province

Warsaw‐Chełm OR eparchy (Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PAOC)
Warsaw‐Vistula OR eparchymore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.07.16]

academic distinctions

Sacred Orthodox Theology Candidate

honorary titles

protopriestmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.07.16]

date and place
of death

25.09.1939

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

Warsaw (Black Monday)Click to display the description, Air raids 1939Click to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Polish‐Russian war of 1919‐1921Click to display the description

date and place
of birth

10.04.1867

Verbychnetoday: Turiisk hrom., Kovel rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

17.09.1895 (Holy Dormition Pochaiv Lavramore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.02.20])

positions held

others related
in death

BIAŁAClick to display biography Anne (Sr Adolphine), CHOINAClick to display biography Sophia, CZAJKOWSKAClick to display biography Marianne, CZYMEKClick to display biography Charles, DREWNIKOWSKAClick to display biography Stephanie, GĄSIOROWSKIClick to display biography Francis, GRZEGORCZYKClick to display biography Francis (Bro. Thaddeus), HATKOClick to display biography Francis (Fr Matthew), KACZMAREKClick to display biography Josefa (Sr Andrea), KISIELEWSKAClick to display biography Christine, KRAWCZYKClick to display biography Theodosia, LANGERClick to display biography John, LEOŃCZUKClick to display biography Mary, LEWANDOWSKAClick to display biography Eleonor, LEWANIUKClick to display biography Aleksandra, ŁĄCZEKClick to display biography Marianne, MIKOŁAJEWSKAClick to display biography Helen, NIEDŹWIECKAClick to display biography Marianne, NIKUTAClick to display biography Cecilia, OPIELAClick to display biography Joseph, OSTROWSKIClick to display biography Stanislav Kostka Chris Alexander (Fr Josaphat), PSZENNAClick to display biography Wanda, RANIECKAClick to display biography Marianne, RUSZKOWSKAClick to display biography Stanislava, SASAKClick to display biography Josefa Aleksandra, SELMAClick to display biography Alice Janet, SIEMIŃSKAClick to display biography Petronella, WÓJCIKClick to display biography Marianne, ZEMBRZUSKAClick to display biography Casimira

sites and events
descriptions

Warsaw (Black Monday): On 25.09.1939 from 7:00 till late evening more than 400 German bombers made aerial raids on Warsaw. Almost 630 tons of explosives, both incendiary and demolishing were dropped. Caused c. 200 fires. Public building were not spared, including hospitals clearly marked with Red Cross signs (in fact they were targeted in the first place). Holy Ghost hospital was among them and c. 700 people, both patients and staff were killed (including 20 Vincentian sisters). Altogether during the raids called „Black Monday” c. 10,000 people perished, 35,000 were wounded, mostly civilian. The raids were in contravention of Hague agreements and must be regarded as an act of war crime. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.04.18])

Air raids 1939: During invasion of Poland commenced on 01.09.1939 Germans systematically attacked civilian targets. Many cities (Wieluń, Frampol, Warszawa, Lwów, Łomża, Puck, etc.) were bombed during air raids and totally destroyed. The hospitals and churches, visibly marked as such, were not spared. German planes also attacked columns of fleeing people on the roads, massacring them. It is estimated that c. 150,000‐200,000 civilians were killed or murdered by the Germans in 09.1939. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.04.18])

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])

Polish‐Russian war of 1919‐1921: War for independence of Poland and its borders. Poland regained independence in 1918 but had to fight for its borders with former imperial powers, in particular Russia. Russia planned to incite Bolshevik‐like revolutions in the Western Europe and thus invaded Poland. Russian invaders were defeated in 08.1920 in a battle called Warsaw battle („Vistula river miracle”, one of the 10 most important battles in history, according to some historians). Thanks to this victory Poland recaptured part of the lands lost during partitions of Poland in XVIII century, and Europe was saved from the genocidal Communism. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20])

sources

personal:
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„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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