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St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
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Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

KACZMAR

forename(s)

Stephen (pl. Szczepan)

forename(s)
versions/aliases

Stephen (pl. Stepan)

function

eparchial priest

creed

Ukrainian Greek Catholic GCmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

diocese / province

Przemyśl GC eparchymore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

nationality

Ukrainian

date and place
of death

12.01.1946

Velyka Horozhankatoday: Mykolaiv urban hrom., Stryi rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]

details of death

During World War I soldier of the Austro–Hungarian Empire's army fighting on Italian front.

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after start of Russian occupation, forced with his family to leave parish rectory taken over by the Russians and included into an emerging kolkhoz.

After German defeat and start in 1944 of another Russian occupation persecuted by the genocidal Russian NKVD agents attempting to force him to join a so‐called „initiative group” advocating an apostasy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and it's incorporation into Russian Orthodox church.

On 05.07.1945 severely beaten by a Commie Russian/Ukrainian militia gang and as a result suffered a paralysis of the lower part of his body.

Held in a hospital in nearby Mikolaiv and from 09.1945 in one of Lviv hospitals.

Released perished soon after.

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Russians / Ukrainians

sites and events

Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

10.02.1895

Sokolyatoday: Mostyska urban hrom., Yavoriv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.08.05]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

15.02.1925 (Greek Catholic Przemyśl cathedral)

positions held

1937 – 1945

dean — Komarnotoday: Komarno urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.12.19]
GC deanery

1934 – 1937

deputy dean — Komarnotoday: Komarno urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.12.19]
GC deanery

1937 – 1945

parish priest — Velyka Horozhankatoday: Mykolaiv urban hrom., Stryi rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary GC parish ⋄ Komarnotoday: Komarno urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.12.19]
GC deanery — also: county inspector of religion classes in elementary schools (till c. 1939)

1931 – 1937

parish priest — Monastyretstoday: Komarno urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ Circumcision of Jesus GC parish ⋄ Komarnotoday: Komarno urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
GC deanery

1930 – 1931

administrator — Voyutychitoday: Biskovychi hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary GC parish ⋄ Stara Siltoday: Staryi Sambir urban hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]
GC deanery

1929 – 1930

administrator — Pidhaichykytoday: Rudky urban hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ St James the Apostle, brother of the Lord GC parish ⋄ Rudkytoday: Rudky urban hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.10.09]
GC deanery

1928 – 1929

administrator — Krynytsyatoday: Mykolaiv urban hrom., Stryi rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary GC parish ⋄ Medenychitoday: Medenychi hrom., Drohobych rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.16]
GC deanery

1925 – 1928

administrator — Trepczatoday: Sanok gm., Sanok pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.22]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary GC parish ⋄ Sanoktoday: Sanok urban gm., Sanok pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]
GC deanery

1920 – 1924

student — Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.04.01]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Greek Catholic Theological Seminary

married — three children

sites and events
descriptions

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]
)

Pius XI's encyclicals: Facing the creation of two totalitarian systems in Europe, which seemed to compete with each other, though there were more similarities than contradictions between them, Pope Pius XI issued in 03.1937 (within 5 days) two encyclicals. In the „Mit brennender Sorge” (Eng. „With Burning Concern”) published on 14.03.1938, condemned the national socialism prevailing in Germany. The Pope wrote: „Whoever, following the old Germanic‐pre‐Christian beliefs, puts various impersonal fate in the place of a personal God, denies the wisdom of God and Providence […], whoever exalts earthly values: race or nation, or state, or state system, representatives of state power or other fundamental values of human society, […] and makes them the highest standard of all values, including religious ones, and idolizes them, this one […] is far from true faith in God and from a worldview corresponding to such faith”. On 19.03.1937, published „Divini Redemptoris” (Eng. „Divine Redeemer”), in which criticized Russian communism, dialectical materialism and the class struggle theory. The Pope wrote: „Communism deprives man of freedom, and therefore the spiritual basis of all life norms. It deprives the human person of all his dignity and any moral support with which he could resist the onslaught of blind passions […] This is the new gospel that Bolshevik and godless communism preaches as a message of salvation and redemption of humanity”… Pius XI demanded that the established human law be subjected to the natural law of God , recommended the implementation of the ideal of a Christian state and society, and called on Catholics to resist. Two years later, National Socialist Germany and Communist Russia came together and started World War II. (more on: www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28]
, www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28]
)

sources

bibliographical:
Clergy of Przemyśl Eparchy and Apostolic Exarchate of Lemkivshchyna”, Bogdan Prach, Ukrainian Catholic University Publishing House, Lviv 2015

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