Since c. 1937 was the parish priest in Malin, known as Rusyn Malin, a small village inhabited in 1939 by an estimated 550 people, c. 99% Orthodox Ruthenians — prob. there were also a few Poles — situated at the time in Dubno County in the Polish Volyn Voivodeship. C. 1 km to the east was the Malin colony, then inhabited by an estimated 530 people, including c. 94% descendants of Czech colonists from the 19th century, i.e. from the time of the Austro–Hungarian Monarchy — and therefore called Czech Malin — as well as about 30 Poles.

Ministered there also during the Russian occupation, after the German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and the start of World War II, when the Russian occupation authorities forcibly incorporated all Orthodox priests into the Russian Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.

After the German attack on 22.06.1941 on their erstwhile ally, the Russians, and the beginning of the German occupation, his village became part of the Germ. Bezirk Dubno (Eng. Dubno County) in the Germ. Generalbezirk Wolhynien–Podolien (Eng. Volyn‐Podolia General District) of the German‐run Germ. Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Eng. Reichskommissariat Ukraine).

It is not clear which faction of the Orthodox Church joined. One of these was the Autonomous Ukrainian Orthodox Church AUOC, the canonical proclamation of which was announced on 18.08.1941, by the synod of Ukrainian Orthodox bishops in Pochayiv Lavra. The AUOC strove for autocephaly, i.e. independence, but recognizing the supremacy of the Moscow Patriarchate. On 08‐10.02.1942, however, another group of Orthodox bishops announced the establishment of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church UAOC, under the auspices of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PAOC, which in turn, as early as 1940, had made an act of loyalty to the German genocide killer Hans Frank, Germ. Generalgouverneur (Eng. General Governor) of the German‐occupied and run quasi‐state called the Germ. Generalgouvernement (Eng. General Governorate), i.e. GG. In the territory of the Germ. Reichskommissariat Ukraine, the bishops of the UAOC considered themselves the successors of the PAOC, whose autocephaly had been granted by the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

The two sides were in strong conflict when, in 02.1943 Roman Shukhevych, nom de guerre „Taras Chuprynka”, the chief commander of the Ukrainian, genocidal OUN/UPA organisation, who in 1941 was a member of the Ukrainian Germ. Sondergruppe Nachtigall (Eng. Special Group Nightingale) — a unit of the Germ. Wehrmacht (Eng. Armed Forces) that took part in the German attack on Russians in 1941, accused of participating in the Jewish pogrom in Lviv in 1941 — and later a member of the Germ. Schutzmannschaftsbataillon 201 (Eng. 201st Protection team Battalion) — responsible for the murder of Jews and civilians in the territory of Belarus — issued an order: „The extermination operation should be carried out according to the following principles: Polish villages are to be burned, and their populations massacred. Attacks on towns will take place in broad daylight, not at night. In mixed villages, the Polish population alone should be liquidated, and farmsteads should be burned only if they are 15 meters away and when there is no risk of the fire spreading to neighboring Ukrainian buildings. The Ukrainian population will receive instructions as to where to gather during the attack […] For every Ukrainian murdered, whether by Poles or Germans, 100 (one hundred) Poles will be executed”.

It was the de facto signal for the commencement of the «Genocidium Atrox» — i.e. the genocide perpetrated by Ukrainians, known as „Volyn genocide”.

Immediately afterwards, in 03.1943, the UPA issued an appeal addressed to members of the collaborative German Ukrainische Hilfspolizei (Ukrainian Auxiliary Police), in some regions also referred to as Germ. Schutzmannschaft (Eng. Protection Battalions), i.e. Schuma, which participated in the implementation of the German genocidal plan of the Germ. «Endlösung der Judenfrage» (Final Solution of the Jewish Question) — i.a. participated in the extermination of Jews from the county capital of Dubno, located c. 40 km to the south, when in four Germ. Aktion (Eng. Action) the Germans, together with the Germ. Ukrainische Hilfspolizei and the Germ. Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst (Eng. Jewish Police Service), in 1942 in the Dubno area murdered all, i.e. c. 11,000, Jewish inhabitants of the ghetto, including small children, who were simply pushed into death pits and then had grenades thrown at them — to desert and join the UPA. Perhaps as many as 10,000 Ukrainians did so.

The tactics of the genocidal Ukrainians were detailed in an order issued by the UPA commander in Volyn, Dmytro Klachkivsky nom de guerre „Klym Savur”, from 06.1943. Anticipating Germany's defeat in the war with Russia, explained and ordered: „We should carry out a major operation to eliminate the Polish element. When the German troops withdraw, we should use this opportune moment to eliminate the entire male population aged 16 to 60 […] We cannot lose this fight, and we must weaken Polish forces at all costs. Forest villages and villages located near forest massifs should disappear from the face of the earth”.

Volyn was drenched in Polish blood. Tens of thousands of Poles were murdered by the Ukrainians — with German passivity — in an extremely barbaric manner. Hundreds of villages were burned.

And then, in 1943, was murdered, in unknown circumstances.

Orthodox sources state that was burned in the church, along with his parishioners.

His death is most likely connected with the events in Malin on 13.07.1943. It was two days after the so‐called „Bloody Sunday”, when OUN/UPA genocide perpetrators attacked c. 99 Polish towns, barbarously murdering over 10,000 Poles: men, women, and children, burning houses, farms, and churches. In the following days, the Ukrainian génocidaires continued their actions. However, most of the murders took place then west of the Germ. Bezirk Dubno, in the Germ. Bezirk Gorokhov (Eng. Horokhiv County) and the Germ. Bezirk Wladimir–Wolynsk (Eng. Volodymyr‐Volynskyi County).

C. a week earlier, a c. 2,000‐strong detachment of Russian partisans, under the command of the Ukrainian communist Sidor Kovpak, had made its way through Malin and the surrounding area. Having received orders to organize Russian partisans in the western Ukraine and to sabotage the communication and supply lines of the German armies — the front of the German–Russian battles was then located on the so‐called Kursk Salient — Kovpak's partisans, starting on 12.06.1943, broke through from southern Belarus towards Stanislaviv and the Carpathians. The unit traveled over 2,000 km, destroying 19 German railway transports and 51 warehouses, blowing up 52 bridges, and conducting sabotage at power plants and oil production points in the Boryslav‐Drohobych Oil Basin. About halfway there, it passed through Volyn near Malin, where the partisans were received and fed.

This is prob. why on 13.07.1943, a German unit of c. 1,500 men appeared in Malin. Sources do not provide the name of the unit, but indicate that it was prob. a unit of the genocidal Germ. Die Schutzstaffel der NSDAP (Eng. NSDAP Protection Squad), i.e. «SS», a paramilitary formation subordinate to the ruling National Socialist German Workers' Party NSDAP in Germany, from Olyka, c. 15 km away. Its members may have included people of Polish and Ukrainian descent.

The Germans surrounded both villages and then herded the residents of Czech Malin to a square in Rusyn Malin. Those fleeing and trying to hide were shot at. Next Germans herded the men and some women into the Orthodox church, school, and several other buildings, setting them on fire. Those who tried to escape were murdered with machine guns. The women and children were herded back to Czech Malin. There, Germans murdered everyone, setting the settlement on fire. Finally, all the cottages in Rusyn Malin were set on fire.

According to sources, the Germans murdered 374 Czechs — including 104 men, 161 women, 65 boys and 40 girls under the age of 14, residents of Czech Malin (reportedly home to 444 Czechs and 26 Poles at the time) — and the aforementioned 26 Poles. 132 Ukrainian residents of Rusyn Malin were also killed.

Was probably one of the Ukrainian victims murdered in Malino Rusky — burned to death in his church.

According to some sources, survived and was exiled, along with his two adult children, after the German defeat and the beginning of the subsequent Russian occupation in 1944, some 3,000 km to the east, to the Russian Tyumen district — perhaps because his daughter was a member of the genocidal OUN/UPA and/or because was a supporter of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church UAOC. Further fate unknown.