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
religious status
saint
surname
USPIENSKI
forename(s)
John (pl. Jan)
forename(s)
versions/aliases
Ivan (pl. Iwan)
religious forename(s)
Thaddeus (pl. Tadeusz)
canonisation date
23.02.1997
Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Churchmore on
en.wikipedia.org
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function
archbishop
creed
Eastern Orthodox Church ORmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]
diocese / province
Tver OR eparchymore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.09.24]
Saratov OR eparchymore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.09.24]
Pyatigorsk OR eparchymore on
ru.wikipedia.org
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Astrakhan‐Tsarev OR eparchymore on
ru.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.07.16]
Vladikavkaz‐Mozdok OR eparchymore on
ru.wikipedia.org
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Volyn‐Zhytomyr OR eparchymore on
ru.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.07.16]
Nizhny Novgorod OR eparchymore on
ru.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.07.16]
academic distinctions
Doctor of Sacred Orthodox Theology
nationality
Russian
date and place
of death
31.12.1937
Tvertoday: Tver oblast, Russia
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details of death
In 11.1921, arrested in Zhytomyr by agents of VUChK, the Ukrainian branch of the criminal Russian Bolshevik police organization Cheka. Transported to a prison in Kharkov.
There, after a series of interrogations, forced to leave Ukraine and his Volyn eparchy, on the basis of a resolution issued on 28.02.1922 by the VUChK, limiting his right to settle and serve only „to the central northern provinces of Russia and western Siberia, with an order to register each time with the local branches of the Cheka”.
Released on 09.03.1922, went to Moscow. There, after a meeting on 13.03.1922 with Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, during was awared the rank of archbishop and was appointed bishop of the Astrakhan eparchy, arrested again, this time by agents of the Moscow Cheka, and accused of issuing proclamations against „those who illegally try to take power in the Church” (i.e. representatives of the so‐called revisionist movement collaborating with the Bolsheviks).
Transported to the prison in Vladimir on Klazma river.
From there exiled to Zyryansk, in the Pribaikal district in the republic of Buryatia (according to other sources, to Ust‐Sysolsk, the capital of the republic of Komi).
Released after a year, in 1923 — before taking over the Astrakhan Eparchy, ministered for some time in Volokolamsk and Moscow.
In mid–12.1926, in connection with the arrests of the hierarchy of the Church in Moscow, left for Moscow to take over the administration of the Church as Lat. locum tenens (Eng. „holding reins”), acting („ad interim”). On the way stopped by the Bolsheviks in Saratov and deported to Kuznetsk, without the right to leave the city. Resided there until 03.1928.
On 29.09.1936, the communists in Tver forbade him to celebrate public services, refusing to register him as a priest.
Nevertheless, continued to minister clandestinely.
On 20.12.1937, arrested by agents of the genocidal Russian NKVD organization.
Ten days later, on 30.12.1937, on charges of „chairmanship of a church–monarchist organization”, sentenced to death by the genocidal Russian «NKVD Troika» kangaroo court.
Murdered the next day.
In the spring of 1938, the faithful placed his body secretly in a wooden coffin. It was found on 26.10.1993.
cause of death
mass murder
perpetrators
Russians
sites and events
Great Purge 1937Click to display the description, Vladimir (on Klaźma river)Click to display the description
date and place
of birth
12.11.1872
Naruksovotoday: Naruksovo, Pochinki reg., Nizhny Novgorod oblast, Russia
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alt. dates and places
of birth
Vasilsursktoday: Vasilsursk, Vorotynets reg., Nizhny Novgorod oblast, Russia
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religious vows
13.08.1897 (permanent)
presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
21.09.1897
positions held
11.1928 – 1937
bishop — Tvertoday: Tver oblast, Russia
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[access: 2021.10.09] ⋄ Russian Orthodox Church ⋄ Tver OR eparchy — his eparchy at that time had three names: Tver–Kashin (1928‐1931), Tver–Starytsa (1931‐1935), Tver–Velykie Luki (from 1935)
27.10.1927 – 11.1928
bishop — Saratovtoday: Saratov oblast, Russia
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[access: 2022.02.04] ⋄ Russian Orthodox Church ⋄ Saratov OR eparchy — till 03.1928 was in exile in Kuznetsk, in his eparchy
27.06.1927 – 27.10.1927
bishop — Pyatigorsktoday: Pyatigorsk reg., Stavropol Krai, Russia
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[access: 2022.07.16] ⋄ Russian Orthodox Church ⋄ Pyatigorsk OR eparchy — appointed, de facto did not take over the eparchy
13.03.1922 – 27.06.1927
bishop — Astrakhantoday: Astrakhan city reg., Astrakhan oblast, Russia
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[access: 2023.07.16] ⋄ Russian Orthodox Church ⋄ Astrakhan‐Tsarev OR eparchy — taking over the cathedral in 12.1923, in connection with the arrest and exile by the Bolsheviks; after release, before taking over the eparchy, ministered in in 1923 in Volokolamsk and Moscow for some time; in 08.12.1926, in expectation of arrests of the Church hierarchy in Moscow, appointed as one of the three possible temporary (in the event of the inability of the Patriarch of Moscow to perform his functions) Lat. locum tenens (Eng. „holding reins”), acting („ad interim”); when in mid–12.1926 such a situation took place, left for Moscow to take over the administration of the Orthodox Church, but was detained by the Bolshevik authorities and deported to Kuznetsk
13.03.1922
archbishop — Russian Orthodox Church — dignity conferment
1919 – 13.03.1922
auxiliary bishop — Zhytomyrtoday: Zhytomyr urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17] ⋄ vicariate, Russian Orthodox Church ⋄ Volyn‐Zhytomyr OR eparchy
1916 – 28.01.1917
bishop — Vladikavkaztoday: Vladikavkaz city reg., North Ossetia‐Alania rep., Russia
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[access: 2022.07.21] ⋄ Russian Orthodox Church ⋄ Vladikavkaz‐Mozdok OR eparchy — Lat. locum tenens (Eng. „holding reins”), acting („ad interim”) during the illness of the bishop ordinary
21.12.1908 – 1919
auxiliary bishop — Volodymyr‐Volynskyitoday: Volodymyr, Volodymyr urban hrom., Volodymyr rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ vicariate, Russian Orthodox Church ⋄ Volyn‐Zhytomyr OR eparchy — from 21.12.1908 second vicar; from 28.02.1913 first vicar; in 1914‐1915, after the departure of his archbishop to Galicia, occupied by the Russians at the beginning of World War I, as the coordinator of the action to promote Orthodoxy among the Greek Catholic population of Galicia), Lat. locum tenens (Eng. „holding reins”), acting („ad interim”) ordinary bishop of the eparchy; similarly in 1919, after his archbishop was forced to go abroad, served as Lat. locum tenens (Eng. „holding reins”), acting („ad interim”) ordinary bishop of the eparchy
21.12.1908
Bishop — Russian Orthodox Church — bishop's cheirotonia, i.e. ordination
1903 – 1908
rector — Petrozavodsktoday: Petrozavodsk city reg., Karelia rep., Russia
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[access: 2023.07.16] ⋄ Orthodox Olonets Theological Seminary — also: lecturer of the Holy Scriptures; in 1908 for Rus. „Иегова” (Eng. „Jehovah”) thesis awarded the title of Doctor of Sacred Theology
1902 – 1903
inspector — Ufatoday: Ufa city reg., Bashkortostan rep., Russia
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[access: 2022.08.05] ⋄ Orthodox Theological Seminary
05.03.1902
Archimandrite, i.e. superior abbot — Russian Orthodox Church — dignity conferment
1900 – 1902
professor — Ufatoday: Ufa city reg., Bashkortostan rep., Russia
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[access: 2022.08.05] ⋄ Orthodox Theological Seminary — also: publication of the manual Rus. „Записки по дидактике” (pl. „Notes on Didactics”)
1898 – 1900
inspector — Minsktoday: Minsk city reg., Belarus
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[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ Orthodox Theological Seminary — also: lecturer of the Holy Scriptures
1897 – 1898
professor — Smolensktoday: Smolensk oblast, Russia
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[access: 2022.01.06] ⋄ Orthodox Theological Seminary — lecturer of logic, philosophy and didactics
21.09.1897
hieromonk — Russian Orthodox Church — priesthood cheirotonia, i.e. ordination
24.08.1897
hierodeacon — Russian Orthodox Church — diaconate cheirotonia, i.e. ordination, preceded by the adoption of the tonsure and perpetual monastic vows on 13.08.1897 in Kazan
1896 – 1897
scholar — Moscowtoday: Moscow city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ Orthodox Theological Academy — scientific work, crowned with Rus. „Единство книги пророка Исайи” (Eng. „Coherence of the book of the prophet Isaiah” thesis, published in 1901 in Sergiev Posad, and the title of Master of Sacred Theology MA
till 1896
student — Moscowtoday: Moscow city, Russia
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ philosophy and theology, Orthodox Theological Academy — postgraduate specialised studies crowned with Sacred Orthodox Theology Candidate's degree
till 1892
student — Nizhny Novgorodform.: Gorki (1932‐1990)
today: Nizhny Novgorod oblast, Russia
more on
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[access: 2024.03.19] ⋄ philosophy and theology, Orthodox Theological Seminary
sites and events
descriptions
Great Purge 1937: „Great Terror” (also «Great Purge», also called „Yezhovshchyna” after the name of the then head of the NKVD) — a Russian state action of political terror, planned and directed against millions of innocent victims — national minorities, wealthier peasants (kulaks), people considered opponents political, army officers, the greatest intensity of which took place from 09.1936 to 08.1938. It reached its peak starting in the summer of 1937, when Art. 58‐14 of the Penal Code about „counter‐revolutionary sabotage” was passed , which became the basis for the „legalization” of murders, and on 02.07.1937 when the highest authorities of Russia, under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, issued a decree on the initiation of action against the kulaks. Next a number of executive orders of the NKVD followed, including No. 00439 of 25.07.1937, starting the liquidation of 25,000‐42,000 Germans living in Russia (mainly the so‐called Volga Germans); No. 00447 of 30.07.1937, beginning the liquidation of „anti‐Russian elements”, and No. 00485[2] of 11.08.1937, ordering the murder of 139,835 people of Polish nationality (the latter was the largest operation of this type — encompassed 12.5% of all those murdered during the «Great Purge», while Poles constituted 0.4% of the population). In the summer of 1937 Polish Catholic priests held in Solovetsky Islands, Anzer Island and ITL BelbaltLag were locked in prison cells (some in Sankt Petersburg). Next in a few kangaroo, murderous Russian trials (on 09.10.1937, 25.11.1937, among others) run by so‐called «NKVD Troika» all were sentenced to death. They were subsequently executed by a single shot to the back of the head. The murders took place either in Sankt Petersburg prison or directly in places of mass murder, e.g. Sandarmokh or Levashov Wilderness, where their bodies were dumped into the ditches. Other priests were arrested in the places they still ministered in and next murdered in local NKVD headquarters (e.g. in Minsk in Belarus), after equally genocidal trials run by aforementioned «NKVD Troika» kangaroo courts.
Vladimir (on Klaźma river): On of the harshest Russian prisons for political prisoners where dozens of catholic priest were held.
sources
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bibliographical:
„Hierachy, clergy and employees of the Orthodox Church in the 19th‐21st centuries within the borders of the Second Polish Republic and post–war Poland”, Fr Gregory Sosna, M. Antonine Troc-Sosna, Warsaw–Bielsk Podlaski 2017
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