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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland

XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

SKLEPOWICZ

forename(s)

Basil (pl. Bazyli)

forename(s)
versions/aliases

Vasil (pl. Wasyl)

function

eparchial priest

creed

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

diocese / province

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

nationality

Ukrainian

date and place
of death

24.07.1950

KarLag labour campGULAG slave labour camp network
today: n. Karaganda, Karaganda reg., Kazakhstan

more on
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[access: 2019.10.13]

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the II World War, after German defeat and start in 1944 of another Russian occupation, after arrest by the Russians on 11.04.1945 of all Greek Catholic bishops living on pre‑war Polish territories occupied by the Russians, after so‑called Lviv pseudo–council on 08—10.03.1946 when Russians forced formal „dissolution” of Greek Catholic Church and its incorporation into Russian Orthodox Church, on 12.06.1946 apostacised and converted to Ortodoxy.

Continued to minister in his Zamochok parish.

Prob. withdrew however his signature under a list of those who switched to Orthodox church and on 25.03.1949 was arrested by agents of Russian MVD (successor of genocidal NKVD organization) from Lviv oblast.

Accused that „being hostile to the political system in force in Russia, as a minister in Zamochok […], wrote a report on moral–religious attitudes of inhabitants of his village in which defamed Russian reality and which passed over to [his] dean […] Collected anti–Russian nationalist literature in his church […] Kept in touch with members of OUN/UPA underground [i.e. Ukrainian organization for Volyn genocide] […] Kept in touch with people sentenced for anti–Russian activities, provided material support to them, […] in a special 'hiding place' kept secure documents [of one of them]”.

On 06.09.1949 sentenced by a Russian MVD kangaroo military court from Lviv oblast to 25 years of slave labour in Russian concentration camps Gulag.

Held prob. in KarLag concentration camp n. Karaganda in Kazakhstan, where perished.

cause of death

extermination

perpetrators

Russians

date and place
of birth

21.01.1892

Zheldetstoday: Kamyanka–Buzka urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

19.03.1916 (Greek Catholic Resurrection of Christ cathedral in Stanislaviv)

positions held

1946 – 1949

presbiter (Eng. priest, i.e. iereus) {parish: Zamochoktoday: Zhovkva urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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, St Demetrius the Martyr}, as the Orthodox parish

1927 – 1946

parish priest {parish: Zamochoktoday: Zhovkva urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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, St Demetrius the Martyr; dean.: Zhovkvatoday: Zhovkva urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.11.22]
}

1921 – 1927

parish priest {parish: Chestynitoday: Zhovtantsi hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.08.05]
, St Nicholas the Wonderworker; dean.: Kulykivtoday: Kulykiv hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.01.22]
}

1918 – 1921

curatus/rector/expositus {parish: Kulykivtoday: Kulykiv hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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, main parish Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary; church: Hrebintsitoday: Kulykiv hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.08.05]
, St Nicholas; dean.: Kulykivtoday: Kulykiv hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.01.22]
}

1917 – 1918

administrator {parish: Artasivtoday: Kulykiv hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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; dean.: Kulykivtoday: Kulykiv hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.01.22]
}

1916 – 1917

vicar {parish: Sośnicatoday: Radymno gm., Jarosław pow., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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, St Onuphrius; dean.: Przemyśl–Zahorodydeanery name
today: Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
}

1913 – 1914

student {Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pow., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01]
, philosophy and theology, Greek Catholic Theological Seminary}

1910 – 1913

student {Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.01.16]
, philosophy and theology, Greek Catholic Theological Seminary}

married two children

others related
in death

CHAMCZUKClick to display biography Gregory, DOBRIAŃSKIClick to display biography Nicholas, ZARYCKIClick to display biography Alexander

murder sites
camp 
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KarLag: Russian concentration camp and forced labour camp n. Karaganda in Kazakhstan. One of the largest in Gulag penal system, operational in 1930‑59 (though even later parts of the camp were used as a new concentration camp and prison). Stretched over 300 by 200 km, centered in Dolinka village, c. 45 km from Karaganda. One of the goals was creation a large food base for the developing coal and metallurgical industries of Kazakhstan. 10,000 to 65,000 (in 1949) prisoners — including women and children many of whom perished — were held in the camp at any one time. In total over 1,000,000 inmates slaved in KarLag over its history. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.10.13]
)

Gulag: Network of Russian slave labour concentration camps. At any given time up to 12 mln inmates where held in them, milions perished. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09]
)

Lviv (Łąckiego): Prison at Łącki Str. in Lviv. Founded in 1918‑20 by Polish authorities, mainly for political prisoners. From 1935 used as investigative jail. After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the II World War, after start of Russian occupation Russians — local branch of Russian genocidal NKVD organisation — held thousands of prisoners, mainly Poles and Ukrainians, in prison (then prison no 1). It was also a place of carrying out death sentences passed by Russian summary courts on Poles suspected of participation in Polish clandestine resistance activities. In 06.1941, after German attack on 22.06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, Russians, NKVD agents slaugher — during genocidal massacres of prisoners — c. 924 inmates. During German occupation that followed in 1941‑4 the prison’s buildings held German Gestapo investigative jail. It was a place of executions. In 1944‑91, after German defeat and start of another Russian occupation, the building were again used by NKVD (and it successor MVD) as investigative jail and also investigative department. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.31]
)

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 II World War 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 Stanislaus 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]
)

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

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