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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
SZEMIETIŁŁO
forename(s)
Nicholas (pl. Mikołaj)
function
bishop
creed
Eastern Orthodox Church ORmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]
diocese / province
Slutsk OR eparchymore on
drevo-info.ru
[access: 2024.01.26]
Minsk OR eparchymore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.09.24]
academic distinctions
Sacred Orthodox Theology Candidate
date and place
of death
23.06.1933
Minsktoday: Minsk city reg., Belarus
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
details of death
In 1925, the Bolshevik authorities closed the Holy Trinity monastery in Slutsk. Its monks moved to the Holy Trinity cathedral. There they began to spread the ideas of the so‐called „Renovationism” — i.e. „Living Church” — a movement considered schismatic by the recently deceased patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Tikhon, but supported by the Bolshevik authorities.
Tried to remedy the schism and organized reconciliation meetings. Unsuccessfully. And on 21.08.1926 was arrested by the Russians for the first time.
During the search a poem attributed to Sergei Yesenin, „Reply to Evangelist Demyan” (Demyan had previously published a poem mocking Christianity in the Bolshevik press) was found in his possessions, which led to him being accused of „keeping and disseminating poems with anti–Russian content”.
Prob. held in Slutsk, but released in 1927 — the case was formally closed on 28.06.1927.
In the same month suffered a heart attack that caused paralysis of the left side of his body and partial loss of hearing and speech. Despite this, continued to actively participate, as far as possible, in the life of the Church.
At the end of 1932, another wave of Bolshevik attacks on religion began. On 08.12.1932, the criminal GPU organization carried out a search in his apartment.
Finally, on 16.03.1933, was arrested by GPU agents.
Accused of „leading the Slutsk branch of the counter–revolutionary organization 'Jesuits'”.
Held in prison in Minsk.
During the interrogations was, among others, to state that „even though there is no tsar and there are no kulaks, the Russian Soviet government will never destroy the priests, because even if some are arrested, new faces of priests will emerge from the depths, from the hearts of the people”.
On 09.06.1933, the Russian criminal kangaroo court «GPU Troika» sentenced him to 8 years of forced slave labor in Russian concentration camps.
However, did not reach any of the them. Perished in a Minsk prison.
According to the official entry, „from 29.06.1933 was in the city hospital” and died there of typhus. According to unofficial but eyewitness sources, was murdered by the Russians, among several prisoners, i.e. shot in the forest on the outskirts of the city.
cause of death
mass murder
perpetrators
Russians
date and place
of birth
1877
Obrovotoday: Svyataya Volya ssov., Ivatsevichy dist., Brest reg., Belarus
more on
be.wikipedia.org
[access: 2024.01.26]
presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
21.03.1899
positions held
24.03.1923 – 1933
auxiliary bishop — Slutsktoday: Slutsk dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2021.04.22] ⋄ vicariate, Russian Orthodox Church ⋄ Slutsk OR eparchy
24.03.1923
Bishop — Minsktoday: Minsk city reg., Belarus
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ Russian Orthodox Church ⋄ Minsk OR eparchy — bishop's cheirotonia, i.e. ordination
1914
protoiereus (Eng. first priest) — Russian Orthodox Church — dignity conferment
from 22.04.1914
parish priest — Slutsktoday: Slutsk dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
more on
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[access: 2021.04.22] ⋄ St Nicholas the Wonderworker OR parish — also: chairman of the eparchial school council; prison chaplain (in particular in 10.08.1919‐15.07.1920, during the Polish occupation of the city)
from 25.07.1908
parish priest — SlutskOstriv suburb
today: Slutsk dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.22] ⋄ St Michael the Archangel OR parish — „for conscientious service” rewarded on 30.03.1911 with a nabedrennik, a rectangular scarf symbolizing a spiritual sword; on 05.04.1911 the right to wear a kalimavkion, i.e. a special clerical headdress; and a pectoral cross, a decorative cross worn on chest
26.09.1904 – 1908
student — Moscowtoday: Moscow city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ philosophy and theology, Orthodox Theological Academy — postgraduate specialised studies crowned with Sacred Orthodox Theology Candidate's degree
15.11.1903 – 1904
parish priest — Beloushatoday: Belousha ssov., Stolin dist., Brest reg., Belarus
more on
be.wikipedia.org
[access: 2024.01.26] ⋄ Holy Spirit OR parish
from 01.07.1901
prefect — Minsktoday: Minsk city reg., Belarus
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ Orthodox Theological School for Women — also: member of the Brotherhood of St Cyril and St Methodius at the Orthodox Theological Seminary
from 1899
parish priest — Mesyatichitoday: Borichevichi ssov., Pinsk dist., Brest reg., Belarus
more on
be.wikipedia.org
[access: 2024.01.26] ⋄ St Paraskeva Pyatnitsa OR parish — appointment: on 24.02.1899
21.03.1899
presbiter (Eng. priest, i.e. iereus) — Russian Orthodox Church — priesthood cheirotonia, i.e. ordination, on 14.03.1899 preceded by deacon cheirotonia
08.07.1897
psalmist — Mesyatichitoday: Borichevichi ssov., Pinsk dist., Brest reg., Belarus
more on
be.wikipedia.org
[access: 2024.01.26] ⋄ St Paraskeva Pyatnitsa OR parish
till 1897
student — Minsktoday: Minsk city reg., Belarus
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ philosophy and theology, Orthodox Theological Seminary
widower — one son (wife died at birth)
sources
personal:
drevo-info.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2024.01.26], ru.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2024.01.26]
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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