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
WOŁOSZCZUK
forename(s)
Epiphanius (pl. Epifaniusz)
function
presbiter (i.e. iereus)
creed
Eastern Orthodox Church ORmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
diocese / province
Volyn OR eparchy (Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PAOC)more on
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[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
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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 obl., 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
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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: Gorodets ssov., Kobryn dist., Brest reg., Belarus
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[access: 2024.03.15] ⋄ 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 obl., 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
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[access: 2024.03.15] ⋄ 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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[access: 2024.03.15] ⋄ Holy Trinity OR church ⋄ Stolin 2nd distr.Orthodox deanery name
today: Stolin dist., Brest reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.05.02] OR deanery
c. 21.08.1932
psalmist — Zarichnetoday: Zarichne hrom., Varash rai., Rivne obl., 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 obl., Ukraine
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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 obl., 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
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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 obl., Ukraine
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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:
hram-laxva.cerkov.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2024.03.15]
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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