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05-507 Słomczyn
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Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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surname

PANASIEWICZ

surname
versions/aliases

PANASEWICZ, KURIJ

forename(s)

Demetrius (pl. Demetriusz)

forename(s)
versions/aliases

Dmitry (pl. Dymitr)

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

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

nationality

Ukrainian

date and place
of death

04.12.1948

Drohobychtoday: Drohobych urban hrom., Drohobych rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]

details of death

In 1913 became chaplain of the Austrian army in Bosnia.

During World War I 1914‐1918 ministered on the Italian front.

At the end of the war moved to the field army chancellery in Innsbruck.

After the end of the World War I was nominated on 25.03.1919 filed chaplain of the Ukrainian Galician Army UHA fighting for Ukraine independence.

Ministered at the command of II Corps of UHA.

Took part in Polish–Russian war of 1918‐1919.

Ministered in Bershad and Berdychiv, among others.

At the end of 04.1920 found himself in Kiev, but as a result of conflict between UHA and Russian bolshevik army — or possibly as an outcome of Polish army capture of Kiev on 03.05.1920 — attempting to avoid an arrested escaped on the wagon train back to Berdychiv.

Next escaping from Russian invasion during Polish–Russian war of 1919‐1920, taking a round trip through Berestya and Lviv that reached on 03.06.1920, reached Przemyśl.

Thus returned to his eparchy.

After the end of the military hostilities of the World War II started by German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939, after German defeat and start in 1944 of another Russian occupation, converted to Orthodoxy (on 08‐10.03.1946 on so‐called Lviv pseudo–council Russians forced formal „dissolution” of Greek Catholic Church and its incorporation into Russian Orthodox Church).

After conversion ministered in his parish.

Finally on 16.11.1948 arrested by agents of Russian murderous MGB (successor of genocidal NKVD) from Drohobych oblast.

Accused that „during German occupation conducted […] anti–Russian propaganda […] and in 1944 contacted UPA bandits [i.e. OUN/UPA, the organisation responsible for Volyn genocide] and till the day of arrest […] provided material support for them”.

Severely beaten down in prison.

Perished 19 days after arrest.

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Russians

sites and events

Drohobych (prisons)Click to display the description, «Genocidium Atrox»Click to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Polish‐Russian war of 1919‐1921Click to display the description, Polish‐Ukrainian war of 1918‐1919Click to display the description

date and place
of birth

16.10.1882

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

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

04.09.1910 (Greek Catholic Przemyśl cathedral)

positions held

c. 1946 – 1948

presbiter (Eng. priest, i.e. iereus) — Ustrzyki Dolnetoday: Ustrzyki Dolne gm., Bieszczady pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ OR parish

c. 1946

apostasy — conversion from Greek Catholic Church to Orthodox Church

1936 – c. 1946

parish priest — Ustrzyki Dolnetoday: Ustrzyki Dolne gm., Bieszczady pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary GC parish ⋄ Cieszanówtoday: Cieszanów gm., Lubaczów pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.20]
GC deanery

1924 – 1936

dean — Baligródtoday: Baligród gm., Lesko pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]
GC deanery

1922 – 1936

parish priest — Baligródtoday: Baligród gm., Lesko pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary GC parish ⋄ Baligródtoday: Baligród gm., Lesko pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]
GC deanery

1921 – 1922

administrator — Dobrivlyanytoday: Drohobych urban hrom., Drohobych rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary GC parish ⋄ Medenychitoday: Medenychi hrom., Drohobych rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.16]
GC deanery

1920

administrator — Dovhomostyskatoday: Sudova Vyshnya urban hrom., Yavoriv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.04.02]
⋄ Exaltation of the Holy Cross GC parish ⋄ Sudova Vyshnyatoday: Sudova Vyshnya urban hrom., Yavoriv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.05.06]
GC deanery

1919 – 1920

chaplain — Ukrainian Galician Army UHA

1913 – 1918

chaplain — Austro–Hungarian Imperial Army

1910 – 1913

vicar — Truskavetstoday: Truskavets urban hrom., Drohobych rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ St Nicholas the Wonderworker GC parish ⋄ Drohobychtoday: Drohobych urban hrom., Drohobych rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]
GC deanery

1909 – 1910

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

1906 – 1909

student — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Greek Catholic Theological Seminary

widower

others related
in death

MARUSZCZAKClick to display biography Vladimir

sites and events
descriptions

Drohobych (prisons): Before the outbreak of the World War II in 09.1939 a criminal prison functioned at Drohobych Truskawiecka Str. where c. 1,200‐1,500 inmates were held. After the start in 09.1939 of the first Russian occupation a new jail run by Russian NKVD genocidal organization was opened at Striyska Str. (by regional NKVD headquarters). There in 06.1941, after German attack of their erstwhile ally, Russians, NKVD perpetrated a genocidal massacre of prisoners. After German defeat and start in 1944 of another Russian occupation NKVD returned to the same buildings and again opened their jail, where hundreds and thousands of people suspected of not supporting Russia were held and interrogated. The jail was closed in 1959. The prison at Truskawiecka Str. however remained open throughout the World War II, both during Russian and German occupations, stayed open after the end of military hostilities and operates till today. (more on: btx.home.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.04.04]
)

«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]
)

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]
)

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:
dlibra.kul.plClick 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

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