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surname

CZAJKOWSKI

forename(s)

Theophilus (pl. Teofil)

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

1947

VorkutLag labour campGULAG slave labour camp network
today: Vorkuta, Komi rep., Russia

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.09]

details of death

During World War I chaplain of the Austro–Hungarian army (1916‑1918).

Next, in 1919‑1920, after Austro–Hungarian empire's defeat and end of the war, chaplain of the 2nd „Kolomiya” Infantry Brigade of the 2nd Galician Corps of Ukrainian Galician Army — among others during Polish=Ukrainian war of 1918‑1919.

At Proskiriv captured by Polish army and interned in Tuchola camp.

Released after 8 months.

24.02.1922 arrested by Polish authorities — prob. as a reprisal against terrorist activities of the illegal Ukrainian Military Organisation UMO.

Held in Sambir prison.

Released after a month.

After the end of military hostilities of the World War II, started by German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09., after start in 1944 of another Russian occupation, refused in 1945 to sign so‑called „initiative group” manifesto, advocating incorporation of Greek Catholic Church into Russian Orthodox Church (that materialized during so‑called Lviv pseudo–council on 08‑10.03.1946 when Russians formally „liquidated” Greek Catholic Church robbing it of its possessions and passing it to Orthodox Church).

On 20.09.1945 arrested by the agents of Russian genocidal NKVD organization.

Accused that, among others, „during a temporary German occupation spread anti–Russian agitation.

In 1941, [after German attack on 22.06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, Russians,] spoke at a village rally about Ukrainian nationalists' manifest, calling upon […] an effort to form and 'independent Ukraine'.

In 1943 spoke publically again […] at his parishioners rallies extolling relations in Germany and urging to go to work in Germany, […] and later reading from a manifest of German commandant about creation of Ukrainian 14th Waffen SS‑Galizien Grenadiers Division, and then calling upon local youth to join the aforementioned division”.

On 06.03.1946, two day before start of the aforementioned pseudo–council in Lviv sentenced by a Russian NKVD kangaroo military court from Lviv oblast to 8 years of slave labour in Russian concentration camps Gulag.

Sent prob. to one of the camps of VorkutLag concentration camps' system where perished in unknown circumstances.

cause of death

extermination

perpetrators

Russians

date and place
of birth

20.02.1883

Volostkivtoday: Sudova Vyshnya urban hrom., Yavoriv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.01.01]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

07.04.1907 (Greek Catholic Przemyśl cathedral)

positions held

1944 – 1945

dean — Velyki Mostytoday: Velyki Mosty urban hrom., Chervonohrad rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.12.03]
GC deanery

1937 – 1944

city dean — Velyki Mostytoday: Velyki Mosty urban hrom., Chervonohrad rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.12.03]
GC deanery

1932 – 1945

parish priest — Sielec Bełskitoday: Silets, Chervonohrad urban hrom., Chervonohrad rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ Holiest Mother of God GC parish ⋄ Velyki Mostytoday: Velyki Mosty urban hrom., Chervonohrad rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.12.03]
GC deanery

1926 – 1931

parish priest — Novyi Yartoday: Yavoriv urban hrom., Yavoriv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ St Paraskeva Pyatnitsa GC parish ⋄ Yavorivtoday: Yavoriv urban hrom., Yavoriv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.10.09]
GC deanery

1924 – 1925

priest — Yavorivtoday: Yavoriv urban hrom., Yavoriv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ St George the Martyr GC parish ⋄ Yavorivtoday: Yavoriv urban hrom., Yavoriv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.10.09]
GC deanery

priest — Halivkatoday: Strilky hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ St Michael the Archangel GC parish ⋄ Zhukotyntoday: Turka urban hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
GC deanery

priest — Tatarynivtoday: Komarno urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary GC parish ⋄ Komarnotoday: Komarno urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.12.19]
GC deanery

priest — Nyzhni Haitoday: Drohobych urban hrom., Drohobych rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ St Paraskeva Pyatnitsa GC parish ⋄ Drohobychtoday: Drohobych urban hrom., Drohobych rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.10.09]
GC deanery

1918 – 1920

chaplain — Ukrainian Galician Army UHA

1916 – 1918

chaplain — Austro–Hungarian Imperial Army

1909 – 1916

vicar — Sambirtoday: Sambir urban hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.02.12]
⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary GC parish ⋄ Sambirtoday: Sambir urban hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.02.12]
GC deanery

1907 – 1909

vicar — Hordynyatoday: Novyi Kalyniv urban hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ St Demetrius the Martyr GC parish ⋄ Sambirtoday: Sambir urban hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.02.12]
GC deanery

till c. 1905

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

student — Viennatoday: Vienna state, Austria
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Greek Catholic Theological Seminary

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

married — one child

others related
in death

HAWRYSZKIEWICZClick to display biography Elias, ŁOPACZAKClick to display biography Elias, MICHALICHAClick to display biography Andrew, CZUBATYClick to display biography Vladimir, WÓJTOWICZClick to display biography James, CEBROWSKIClick to display biography Victor, KISIELEWSKIClick to display biography Daniel Basil

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VorkutLag: Russian complex of concentration camps and forced labour camp (part of Gulag penal system), near Vorkuta in Komi republic, created on 10.15.1938 — as a result of the split of larger UktpechLag complex of camps — where Russians held many Poles prisoners. Up to 75,000 (at peak — in 1950‑1951 — c. 100,000) prisoners slaved there mainly in coal mines. In the most tragic 1943 c. 15.5% of prisoners held in the camp perished. Total number of victims of Vorkuta camps remains unknown. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09]
)

Gulag: The acronym Gulag comes from the Rus. Главное управление исправительно–трудовых лагерей и колоний (Eng. Main Board of Correctional Labor Camps). The network of Russian concentration camps for slave labor was formally established by the decision of the highest Russian authorities on 27.06.1929. Control was taken over by the OGPU, the predecessor of the genocidal NKVD (from 1934) and the MGB (from 1946). Individual gulags (camps) were often established in remote, sparsely populated areas, where industrial or transport facilities important for the Russian state were built. They were modeled on the first „great construction of communism”, the White Sea–Baltic Canal (1931‑1932), and Naftali Frenkel, of Jewish origin, is considered the creator of the system of using forced slave labor within the Gulag. Up to 12 mln prisoners were held there at one time, i.e. c. 5% of Russia's population. In his book „The Gulag Archipelago”, Alexander Solzhenitsyn estimated that c. 60 mln people were killed in the Gulag until 1956. Formally dissolved on 20.01.1960. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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[access: 2014.05.09]
)

Lviv (Łąckiego): Prison at Łącki Str. in Lviv. Founded in 1918‑1920 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 World War II, 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 1941‑1944 the prison’s buildings held German Gestapo investigative jail. It was a place of executions. In 1944‑1991, 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 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 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
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[access: 2023.05.28]
)

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
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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:
diasporiana.org.uaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.11.24]
, 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
original images:
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