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St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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  • WOŁOSZCZUK Epiphanius; source: Fr Gregory Sosna, M. Antonina Troc-Sosna, „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”, Warsaw-Bielsk Podlaski 2017, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOWOŁOSZCZUK Epiphanius
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surname

WOŁOSZCZUK

forename(s)

Epiphanius (pl. Epifaniusz)

function

presbiter (i.e. iereus)

creed

Eastern Orthodox Church ORmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

Volyn OR eparchy (Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PAOC)more on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]

academic distinctions

Sacred Orthodox Theology MA

date and place
of death

05.1944

Lakhvatoday: Lakhva ssov., Luninets dist., Brest reg., Belarus
more on
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[access: 2020.12.11]

details of death

After the German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and the start of World War II, after the German attack on 22.06.1941 against its erstwhile ally, the Russians, and the start of the German occupation, when to Polesye region and the Pinsk swamps around Pripyat river — his parish was located on the northern bank of the Pripyat river — the Russian offensive was approaching (the Russians reached the Pripyat River from the south during the so‐called Dnieper–Carpathian operation, which ended on 17.04.1944), the Germans — attacked at the back of the front by partisans (in the area of his parish mainly communist ones, attacking, among others, German warehouses) — organized on 16.04.1944, the day of the Orthodox Easter, a raid on his parish village.

Entered the church and arrested him, along with the prob. his wife (her fate is unknown).

Transported to a prison/camp in Lakhva, c. 10 km away.

There was interrogated and tortured.

Perished there after being beaten at the beginning of 05.1944.

The Russians did not attack the northern bank of the Pripyat river from the south, but from the north–east, as part of Operation Bagration, and entered Lakhva on 14.07.1944.

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Germans

sites and events

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date and place
of birth

12.05.1909

Yelyzavetpilform.: Svinna
today: Teofipol hrom., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine

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alt. dates and places
of birth

1908

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1935

positions held

1938 – 1944

parish priest — Mokrovotoday: Sinkevichi ssov., Luninets dist., Brest reg., Belarus
more on
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[access: 2023.02.20]
⋄ Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary OR parish

administrator — Sinkevichitoday: Sinkevichi ssov., Luninets dist., Brest reg., Belarus
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[access: 2024.03.15]
⋄ St George OR church

from 14.11.1936

parish priest — Barodzičytoday: Gorodec ssov., Kobryn dist., Brest reg., Belarus
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⋄ St Michael the Archangel OR parish ⋄ Kobryn 2nd distr.Orthodox deanery name
today: Kobryn dist., Brest reg., Belarus

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[access: 2021.12.18]
OR deanery

from 02.11.1935

parish priest — Nobeltoday: Loknytsya hrom., Varash rai., Rivne, Ukraine
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[access: 2024.03.15]
⋄ Transfiguration of the Lord OR parish — earlier, on 27.08.1935, appointed acting („ad interim”) administrator

c. 1935

presbiter (Eng. priest, i.e. iereus) — Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PACP — priesthood cheirotonia, i.e. ordination

c. 25.01.1935

psalmist — Parshevychitoday: Beryozovichi, Beryozovichi ssov., Pinsk dist., Brest reg., Belarus
more on
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⋄ Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC church ⋄ Pinsk 1st distr.Orthodox deanery name
today: Pinsk dist., Brest reg., Belarus

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[access: 2022.07.16]
OR deanery

from 30.08.1932

psalmist — Azdamichytoday: Remel ssov., Stolin dist., Brest reg., Belarus
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⋄ Holy Trinity OR church ⋄ Stolin 2nd distr.Orthodox deanery name
today: Stolin dist., Brest reg., Belarus

more on
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[access: 2022.05.02]
OR deanery

c. 21.08.1932

psalmist — Zarichnetoday: Zarichne hrom., Varash rai., Rivne, Ukraine
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[access: 2024.03.15]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary OR church ⋄ Pinsk 3rd distr.Orthodox deanery name
today: Pinsk dist., Brest reg., Belarus

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[access: 2022.07.16]
OR deanery

c. 03.08.1932

psalmist — Voytkevichytoday: Kamyane, Berezove hrom., Sarny rai., Rivne, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.07.05]
⋄ St Michael the Archangel OR church

c. 11.05.1932

psalmist — Bilovizhtoday: Rokytne hrom., Sarny rai., Rivne, Ukraine
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[access: 2024.03.15]
⋄ Our Lord's Resurrection OR church

till 1932

student — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ Orthodox Theology Department, 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 the title of master of sacred Orthodox theology

1923 – 1928

student — Kremenetstoday: Kremenets urban hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.10.18]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Orthodox Theological Seminary

married

sites and events
descriptions

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 Stanislav 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
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sources

personal:
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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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