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

04.1940

(Ukraine territory)today: Ukraine
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en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.08.05]

alt. dates and places
of death

05.1940, 06.1941

details of death

alt. details of death

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Russians

sites and events

«Katyn genocide 1940»Click to display the description, 06.1941 massacres (NKVD)Click to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description, Polish‐Ukrainian war of 1918‐1919Click to display the description

date and place
of birth

15.11.1894

Zavyshentoday: Sokal urban hrom., Sheptytskyi rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
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parents

LIACH Procopius
🞲 18.03.1866, ? — 🕆 06.01.1940, ?

PILIŃCZUK Paraskeva
🞲 ?, ? — 🕆 ?, ?

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

14.04.1929

Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.01]
St Therese GC cathedral churchmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2025.03.14]

positions held

others related
in death

ANDREJCZUKClick to display biography Peter, DANIŁKOWClick to display biography John, GOSZKAClick to display biography George, GRYNIKClick to display biography Nicholas, KIEBUZClick to display biography John, KOLIDAClick to display biography Sophronius, KRUPSKIClick to display biography Zeno Alexander, MAKARClick to display biography Stephen, OSIDACZClick to display biography Roman, ZAWOROTIUKClick to display biography Michael

sites and events
descriptions

«Katyn genocide 1940»: 05.03.1940, the Russian Commie‐Nazi authorities — the Politburo of the Russian Commie‐Nazi party headed by Joseph Stalin — made a formal, secret decision No. P13/144 to exterminate tens of thousands of Polish intelligentsia and military personnel, „declared and hopeless enemies of the Russian government”, held in Russian camps, as a consequence of the German‐Russian Ribbentrop‐Molotov Agreement, the invasion of Poland and annexation of half of Poland in 09.1939, and the beginning of World War II. The decision was, as it were, „sanctioned” by the verdicts of the NKVD Special Council, i.e. the genocidal Russian kangaroo court known as «NKVD Troika» in Moscow. The implementation in Ukraine and Belarus was made possible by order No. 00350 of 22.03.1940 of the head of the NKVD, Lavrentiy Beria, on the „unloading of NKVD prisons”, i.e. transfer of prisoners from several prisons in Ukraine and Belarus to central prisons, e.g. in Kiev or Minsk. The genocidal «NKVD Troika», after issuing sentences, also sent to local NKVD units, NKVD disposition lists — i.e. lists of convicts — each containing on average c. 100 names. Named lists are known — may be reconstructed — for people held in the KLW Kozelsk and KLW Ostashkov camps, but not for KLW Starobilsk, known for victims from Ukrainian prisons, but not Belarusian ones. It is not even known exactly how many lists there were, mainly because the number of them sent to the NKVD in Belarus is unknown. On 03.03.1959 Alexander Shelepin, then head of the Russian KGB, in a handwritten note stated: „ Since 1940, the Committee for State Security under the Council of Ministers of Russia, has been keeping records and other materials relating to the prisoners of war and interned officers, gendarmes, policemen, etc., people from former bourgeois Poland shot that year. In total, based on the decision of the special troika of the NKVD of the USSR, 21,857 people were shot, of whom: 4,421 people in the Katyn Forest (Smolensk Oblast), 3,820 people from the Starobilsk camp near Kharkov, 6,311 people from the Ostashkov camp (Kalinin Oblast), and 7,305 people in other camps and prisons in Western Ukraine and Western Belarus. The entire operation of liquidation of the above–mentioned was carried out on the basis of the Resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU of 05.03.1940”. The head of the NKVD recommended to the Russian leader, Nikita Khrushchev, to destroy all personal files of those shot in 1940, but to keep the minutes of the meetings of the «NKVD Troika» and confirmations of the implementation of the decisions of the «NKVD Troika». A one–sentence draft resolution was attached to the note. It is not known whether the resolution was accepted and whether the files were destroyed. The aforementioned protocols and confirmations of the «NKVD Troika» are also not known. There are indications — i.e. four so‐called „NKVD‐Gestapo Methodical Conferences” of 1939‐1940: in Brest on Bug, Przemyśl, Zakopane and Cracow — of close collaboration between Germans and Russians in realization of plans of total extermination of Polish nation, its elites in particular — decision that prob. was confirmed during meeting of socialist leaders of Germany: Mr Heinrich Himmler, and Russia: Mr Lavrentyi Beria, in another German leader, Mr Hermann Göring, hunting lodge in Rominty in Romincka Forest in East Prussia. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.12.15])

06.1941 massacres (NKVD): After German attack of Russian‐occupied Polish territory and following that of Russia itself, before a panic escape, Russians murdered — in accordance with the genocidal order issued on 24.06.1941 by the Russian interior minister Lawrence Beria to murder all prisoners (formally „sentenced” for „counter‐revolutionary activities”, „anti‐Russian acts”, sabotage and diversion, and political prisoners „in custody”), held in NKVD‐run prisons in Russian occupied Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia — c. 40,000‐50,000 prisoners. In addition Russians murdered many thousands of victims arrested after German attack regarding them as „enemies of people” — those victims were not even entered into prisons’ registers. Most of them were murdered in massacres in the prisons themselves, the others during so‐called „death marches” when the prisoners were driven out east. After Russians departure and start of German occupation a number of spontaneous pogroms of Jews took place. Many Jews collaborated with Russians and were regarded as co‐responsible for prison massacres. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19])

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])

Polish‐Ukrainian war of 1918‐1919: One of the wars for borders of the newly reborn Poland. At the end of 1918 on the former Austro‐Hungarian empire’s territory, based on the Ukrainian military units of the former Austro‐Hungarian army, Ukrainians waged war against Poland. In particular attempted to create foundation of an independent state and attacked Lviv. Thanks to heroic stance of Lviv inhabitants, in particular young generation of Poles — called since then Lviv eaglets — the city was recaptured by Poles and for a number of months successfully defended against furious Ukrainian attacks. In 1919 Poland — its newly created army — pushed Ukrainian forces far to the east and south, regaining control over its territory. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2017.05.20])

sources

personal:
www.vox-populi.com.uaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.03.01], docplayer.netClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.12.26]
bibliographical:
„Clergy of Przemyśl Eparchy and Apostolic Exarchate of Lemkivshchyna”, Bogdan Prach, Ukrainian Catholic University Publishing House, Lviv 2015
original images:
docplayer.netClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.12.26]