Roman Catholic
St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland
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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland
XX century (1914 – 1989)
personal data
surname
SMOLENIEC
forename(s)
Alexander (pl. Aleksander)
religious forename(s)
Arsenius (pl. Arseniusz)
function
archbishop
creed
Eastern Orthodox Church ORmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]
diocese / province
Semipalatinsk OR eparchymore on
ru.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.09.24]
Oryol‐Sevsk OR eparchymore on
drevo-info.ru
[access: 2020.09.24]
Tavrichesk‐Simferopol OR eparchy
Stalingrad OR eparchymore on
drevo-info.ru
[access: 2020.09.24]
Minsk OR eparchymore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.09.24]
Saratov OR eparchymore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.09.24]
Rostov‐Taganrog OR eparchymore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.09.24]
Yekaterinoslav OR eparchymore on
drevo-info.ru
[access: 2020.09.24]
Tver OR eparchymore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.09.24]
Vladikaukaz OR eparchymore on
drevo-info.ru
[access: 2020.09.24]
academic distinctions
Law Candidate
Sacred Orthodox Theology Candidate
date and place
of death
19.12.1937
Taganrogtoday: Rostov oblast, Russia
more on
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alt. dates and places
of death
19.02.1937, 1940, 1941
details of death
In 1918 in Taganrog avoided death from Bolshevic Russian sailors.
On 19‐24.05.1919, during civil war in Russia, participated in South–East Orthodox Chuch Council in Stavropol, on the territories under control of monarchist forces of Gen. Denikin.
In 1922 objected to the so‐called Live Church schismatic group attempting to take over the rule of the eparchy he ministered in.
Arrested by the Russian Bolshevik authorities and on 30.08.1922 sentenced to death.
The sentence got reduced to 10 years in slave labour concentration camps.
Sent to ITL SLON Solovetsky Islands concentration camp.
Released in 1925.
On 11.08.1931 bishop of Oryel–Sevsk eparchy but prevented from taking it over.
In 1933 arrested by the Russians in Stalingrad.
From now on in exile — among others in Borisoglebsk in 1934.
In 1935 nominated bishop of Semipalatinsk eparchy — again prevent from exercising his duties.
Perished in exile.
cause of death
extermination
perpetrators
Russians
sites and events
Forced exileClick to display the description, ITL SLONClick to display the description
date and place
of birth
21.07.1873
Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]
religious vows
23.03.1902 (permanent)
presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
08.06.1902 (Orthodox Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in Sankt Petersburgmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.06.12])
positions held
17.09.1935
bishop — Semipalatinsk OR eparchy — appointee (when still in exile); prevented from taking over the position in Kazakhstan by the Russian communists
from 1932
pensioner — i.a. in Stalingrad, where in 1933 was arrested and exiled deep into Russia
11.08.1931
bishop — Oryol‐Sevsk OR eparchy — appointee, unable take the position
25.06.1930 – 1931
bishop — Simferopoltoday: Simferopol city rai., Crimea Aut. Rep. obl., Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.09.24] ⋄ Crimea OR eparchy
01.11.1927 – 25.06.1930
bishop — Stalingradtoday: Volgograd, Volgograd oblast, Russia
more on
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[access: 2022.02.14] ⋄ Stalingrad OR eparchy
from 01.11.1927
archbishop — Russian Orthodox Church
13.07.1927 – 12.09.1927
bishop — Minsktoday: Minsk city reg., Belarus
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[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ Minsk OR eparchy
10.1925 – 1927
bishop — Saratovtoday: Saratov oblast, Russia
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[access: 2022.02.04] ⋄ Saratov OR eparchy — assumed the position after his release from prison and concentration camp
from c. 24.05.1919
bishop — Rostov‐on‐Dontoday: Rostov‐on‐Don city reg., Rostov oblast, Russia
more on
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[access: 2024.03.15] ⋄ Rostov‐Taganrog OR eparchy — elected on 19‐25.05.1919, at the South–Eastern Russian Orthodox Church Council in Stavropol, held on the territory then controlled by the „white” government of General Anthony Denikin, which was fighting the Bolsheviks („Reds”); held this post practically until his arrest by the Bolsheviks in 1922; also: elected member of the Provisional Higher Church Administration of Southeastern Russia (VWTSU Southeastern)
07.09.1917 – c. 19.05.1919
auxiliary bishop — Taganrogtoday: Rostov oblast, Russia
more on
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[access: 2020.09.24] ⋄ vicariate ⋄ Ekaterinoslav and Mariupol OR eparchy — known as eparch of Taganrog and Azov Upland
17.04.1912 – 07.09.1917
auxiliary bishop — Staritsatoday: Staritsa reg., Tver oblast, Russia
more on
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[access: 2023.06.12] ⋄ vicariate ⋄ Tver‐Kashin OR eparchy — in the spring of 1917, after the fall of tsarism, a non–canonical congress elected him the successor of the bishop of Tver, entrusting him with the administration of the eparchy
1910 – 1912
auxiliary bishop — Pyatigorsktoday: Pyatigorsk reg., Stavropol Krai, Russia
more on
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[access: 2022.07.16] ⋄ vicariate ⋄ Vladikavkaz OR eparchy — also: prior of the St Simon the Canaanite New Athos monastery in New Aton, Abkhazia
22.10.1910
Bishop — Russian Orthodox Church — bishop's cheirotonia, i.e. ordination, in Orthodox Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in Sankt Petersburg
1907
rector — Byalynichytoday: Byalynichy dist., Mogilev reg., Belarus
more on
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[access: 2023.06.12] ⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary OR monastery ⋄ Mogilev OR eparchy
1905 – 1907
rector — Ardontoday: Ardon urban, Ardon reg., North Ossetia‐Alania rep., Russia
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[access: 2023.06.12] ⋄ Orthodox Alexandrovsky Theological Seminary
from 06.07.1905
Archimandrite, i.e. superior abbot — Russian Orthodox Church
1903 – 1905
inspector — Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city obl., Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2023.03.02] ⋄ Orthodox Theological Seminary — also: cathedral monk of the Pechora Lavra Monastery
1902 – 1903
professor — Klevantoday: Klevan hrom., Rivne rai., Rivne obl., Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.09.17] ⋄ Orthodox Theological School — lecturer in sacred history; also: deputy superintendent
from 08.06.1902
hieromonk — Russian Orthodox Church — diaconate cheirotonia, i.e. ordination on 08.06.1902
1900 – 1902
student — Kazantoday: Kazan city reg., Tatarstan rep., Russia
more on
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[access: 2022.02.04] ⋄ theology, Orthodox Theological Academy — postgraduate specialised studies crowned with Sacred Theology Candidate's degree
1899 – 1900
student — Kazantoday: Kazan city reg., Tatarstan rep., Russia
more on
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[access: 2022.02.04] ⋄ Orthodox Theological Academy — unassociated participant
1897 – 1899
junior controller — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09] ⋄ District Customs Office
1897
junior candidate for judicial positions — Łomżatoday: Łomża city pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.01.28] ⋄ Regional Court
1896 – 1897
junior candidate for judicial positions — Tvertoday: Tver oblast, Russia
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09] ⋄ Regional Court
till 1896
student — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09] ⋄ Department of Law, University of Warsaw [i.e. University of Warsaw (from 1945) / clandestine University (1939‐1945) / Joseph Piłsudski University (1935‐1939) / University of Warsaw (1915‐1935) / Imperial University of Warsaw (1870‐1915)] — postgraduate specialised studies crowned with a Law Candidate's degree
others related
in death
KULHAWIECClick to display biography Simeon, STEPANIUKClick to display biography George, GUDKOClick to display biography Basil (Bp Ambrose), NIKATOWClick to display biography Alex, OSTROUMOWClick to display biography Michael (Bp Seraphim), SAWICKIClick to display biography Yaroslav, SIENKIEWICZClick to display biography Alex, GAGALUKClick to display biography Anthony (Abp Onuphrius), STROCIUKClick to display biography Leontius, BLUMOWICZClick to display biography John, SZACHMUĆClick to display biography Roman (Fr Seraphim), PANASIEWICZClick to display biography Emilian, MIEDWIEDIUKClick to display biography Vladimir, MARCENKOClick to display biography Alexander (Abp Anthony), BORZAKOWSKIClick to display biography Alexander (Abp Agapit), DIERNOWClick to display biography Anatol (Abp Abramius)
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])
ITL SLON: Russian Rus. Исправи́тельно‐Трудово́й Ла́герь (Eng. Corrective Labor Camp) ITL Rus. Солове́цкий ла́герь осо́бого назначе́ния Ла́герь (Eng. Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp) SLON — concentration and slave forced labor camp (within what was to become Gulag complex) — headquartered in Solovetsky Islands in Arkhangelsk Oblast. Founded on 13.10.1923 in a famous Orthodox monastery. In the 1920s, one of the first and largest concentration camps in Russia. The place of slave labor of prisoners — at forest felling, sawmills, peat extraction, fishing, loading work on the Murmansk Railway Main Line, in road construction, production of food and consumer goods, at the beginning of the construction of the White Sea ‐ Baltic canal, etc. The concept of the later system of Russian Gulag concentration camps prob. had its origins in the Solovetsky Islands camp — from there the idea spread to the camps in the area covered by the construction of the White Sea ‐ Baltic canal, i.e. ITL BelBaltLag, and from there further, to the entire territory of the Russian state. From the network of camps on the Solovetsky Islands — also called the Solovetsky Islands archipelago — prob. also comes the concept of the „Gulag Archipelago” created by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. It is estimated that tens to hundreds of thousands of prisoners passed through the Solovetsky Islands concentration camps. At its peak, c. 72,000 prisoners were held there: e.g. 14,810 (12.1927); 12,909 (03.1928); 65,000 (1929); 53,123 (01.01.1930); 63,000 (01.06.1930); 71,800 (01.01.1931); 15,130 (1932); 19,287 (1933) — c. 43,000 of whom were murdered, including the years 1937‐1938 when c. 9,500 prisoners were transported from the camp and murdered in several places of mass executions, including Sandarmokh, Krasny Bor and Lodeynoye Polye. Among them were many Catholic and Orthodox priests. After the National Socialist Party came to power in Germany in 1933, a German delegation visited the ITL SLON camp, to „inspect” Russian solutions and adopt them later in German concentration camps. It operated until 04.12.1933, with a break from 16.11.1931 to 01.01.1932, when it was part of and later became a subcamp of the ITL BelBaltLag camp. It operated as such until 1939 (from 1936 as a prison). (more on: old.memo.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2024.04.08])
sources
personal:
pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.09.24], drevo-info.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.09.24], www.krimoved-library.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.09.24], yadda.icm.edu.plClick to attempt to display webpage
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original images:
azbyka.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.09.24], drevo-info.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.09.24], www.ive1875.narod.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.09.24], www.krimoved-library.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.09.24], www.krimoved-library.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.09.24], www.orel-eparhia.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.09.24], cemetery.suClick to attempt to display webpage
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