function

bishop

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

Mogilev archdiocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.06.23]

honorary titles

prelatemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]
Order of St Anna (Imperial Russia)more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.10.13]
honorary canonmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14] (Mogilev cathedral)

date and place
of death

17.01.1935

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

details of death

cause of death

extermination

perpetrators

Russians

sites and events

Forced exileClick to display the description, Moscow (Lefortovo)Click to display the description, Moscow (Lubyanka)Click to display the description, Trial of 21‐25.03.1923Click to display the description, Sankt Petersburg (Kresty)Click to display the description

date and place
of birth

17.04.1861

Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

17.05.1884

positions held

sites and events
descriptions

Forced exile: One of the standard Russian forms of repression. The prisoners were usually taken to a small village in the middle of nowhere — somewhere in Siberia, in far north or far east — dropped out of the train carriage or a cart, left out without means of subsistence or place to live. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20])

Moscow (Lefortovo): Prison in Moscow where Russians held many political prisoners. During big purge of 1936‐1938 used for interrogations and torture. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.22])

Moscow (Lubyanka): Location of a murderous Russian Cheka and next GPU and NKVD (later MVD and KGB) organisations and a prison (in the basement, with 118 cells — in 1936 — of which 94 were solitary — altogether at any time up to 350 prisoners were held there and c. 2,857 in 1937) in Moscow at Lubyanka Square where Russians interrogated and murdered many political prisoners. Most of the prisoners after investigations were transferred to other Moscov prisons, e.g. Butyrki. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.31])

Trial of 21‐25.03.1923: Show trial against abp John Cieplakow, 14 Catholic priest and one lay Catholic held on 21‐25.03.1923 in Moscow accused of „participation in a counter‐revolutionary organization aiming at counter‐acting the decree on the separation of the church from the state”, of „incitement to rebellion by superstition”. The Russian prosecutor thundered: „Any movement directed against the Soviet government is counter‐revolutionary and must be punished as such. For belonging to an organization whose essence I have explained, all defendants deserve the highest penalty”. And lo‐and‐behold abp Cieplak and Fr Budkiewicz were sentence to death, the others got from 6 months to 10 years of prison or slave labour. Fr Budkiewicz was murdered in prison. Abp Cieplak’s sentence was subsequently reduced to 10 months of slave labour and he was exchanged for Russian spies in Poland among whom was Bolesław Bierut, future first Russian governor in Commie‐Nazi Poland, conquered in 1945 by Russia. Most of the other accused were exchanged for Russian spies as well and went to Poland. At least five however did not return from prisons, concentration camps and exile, among them Fr Leonidas Fiodorov, first Greek‐Catholic exarch in Russia, who in 2001 was beatified by pope St John Paul II. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.22])

Sankt Petersburg (Kresty): Russian prison in Sankt Petersburg where many Polish priests were kept captive. Many of them were also murdered there. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20])

sources

personal:
pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20], biographies.library.nd.eduClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20], katolicy1844.republika.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19], www.polskipetersburg.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.11.18]
bibliographical:
„Fate of the Catholic clergy in USSR 1917‐1939. Martyrology”, Roman Dzwonkowski, SAC, ed. Science Society KUL, 2003, Lublin
original images:
www.sosnowiecfakty.plClick to attempt to display webpage
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[access: 2014.11.22], www.polskipetersburg.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.11.18], www.krzysztof-pozarski.comClick to attempt to display webpage
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[access: 2019.04.16], www.polskipetersburg.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.11.18], gloria.tvClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.04.16], www.polskipetersburg.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.11.18], pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09], pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09], wycieczki-petersburg.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.22], ipn.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.02.02]