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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

HROBAK

forename(s)

Basil (pl. Bazyli)

forename(s)
versions/aliases

Vasil (pl. Wasyl)

function

presbiter (i.e. iereus)

creed

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

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

diocese / province

Apostolic GC Exarchate of Lemkowszczyznamore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2024.03.02]

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

nationality

Ukrainian

date and place
of death

08.1954

Kalushtoday: Kalush urban hrom., Kalush rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano‐Frankivsk, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.20]

details of death

Day before German invasion of Poland on 01.09.1939 (Russians invaded Poland 17 days later) and start of the World War II, arrested by Polish authorities and interned in Bereza Kartuska isolation camp.

Released few days later.

After German defeat and start in 1944 of another Russian occupation deported from Russian–controlled Polish prl territory to Russian–occupied Ukraine.

There after arrest by the Russian on 11.04.1945 of all Greek Catholic bishops on pre‐war Polish territories occupied by the Russians — took part in so‐called pseudo–council of Lviv on 08‐10.03.1946 that decreed „closure” of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and it's incorporation into Russian Orthodox Church.

In an act of apostasy converted to Orthodoxy.

In1951 in danger of imminent arrest (prob. collaborated with Ukrainian nationalist underground from UPA organization, responsible for Volyn genocide) went into hiding — initially in Sambir where his mother lived and then from 1953 in Kalush were lived in a special hidout in his nephews' house.

In 08.1954 voluntarily submitted himself to MGB station (successor of genocidal NKVD) and was summarily arrested.

There few days later jumped/was thrown out from the window on third floor of MGB prison and perished.

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Russians

sites and events

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

date and place
of birth

29.08.1904

Nehrybkatoday: Przemyśl gm., Przemyśl pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.08.20]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

30.03.1930

positions held

1948 – 1951

priest — Drohobychtoday: Drohobych urban hrom., Drohobych rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ OR church

1945 – 1948

priest — Staryavatoday: Khyriv urban hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ St Paraskeva OR parish — took over the parish, after deportation by the Russians to the Russian–occupied territory of Ukraine, as a priest of the Greek Catholic Church GC — after apostasy served as a priest of the Eastern Orthodox Church

10.03.1946

apostasy — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.01.16]
— conversion from Greek Catholic Church to Orthodox Church

1936 – 1945

administrator — Maciejowatoday: Łabowa gm., Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2024.01.29]
⋄ Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary GC parish ⋄ Muszynatoday: Muszyna gm., Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.01]
GC deanery

1941 – 1942

administrator — Krynicatoday: Krynica‐Zdrój, Krynica‐Zdrój gm., Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.01]
⋄ Epiphany of the Lord GC parish ⋄ Muszynatoday: Muszyna gm., Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.01]
GC deanery

till 1938

priest — Nowy Sącztoday: Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.01]
⋄ GC parish ⋄ St Nicholas the Wonderworker GC chapel ⋄ Muszynatoday: Muszyna gm., Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.01]
GC deanery

1932 – 1936

administrator — Florynkatoday: Grybów gm., Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2024.01.29]
⋄ St Michael the Archangel GC parish ⋄ Grybówtoday: Grybów urban gm., Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.01]
GC deanery

c. 1932

administrator — Brunary Niżnetoday: part of Brunary village, Uście Gorlickie gm., Gorlice pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2024.01.29]
⋄ St Michael OR parish ⋄ Grybówtoday: Grybów urban gm., Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.01]
GC deanery

1930 – 1932

vicar — Orivtoday: Truskavets urban hrom., Drohobych rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ St John the Baptist GC parish ⋄ Boryslavtoday: Boryslav urban hrom., Drohobych rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.01]
GC deanery

1926 – 1930

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

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]
)

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

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

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