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
FEDOROŃKO
surname
versions/aliases
FEDORENKO
forename(s)
Simon (pl. Szymon)
function
presbiter (i.e. iereus)
creed
Eastern Orthodox Churchmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
diocese / province
Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
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[access: 2014.12.20]
honorary titles
„White Eagle” Ordermore on
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[access: 2019.04.16]
Gold „Cross of Merit”more on
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[access: 2019.04.16]
Silver „Cross of Merit”more on
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[access: 2019.04.16]
Ten Years of Independence Medalmore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.10.13]
Bronze Medal „For Long Service”more on
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[access: 2020.05.25]
Allied Victory Medalmore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.02.20]
nationality
Ruthenian
date and place
of death
27.04.1940
Katyntoday: Smolensk reg., Smolensk oblast, Russia
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[access: 2020.09.24]
details of death
During World War I, during the escape of the Russians — after the defeat in the Battle of Gorlice in 05.1915 — from Eastern Galicia they occupied since 08.1914 (part of the so‑called bezhenstvo, escape of c. 3 mln Russians from Polish territories), went east, into Russia.
Resided in Zhytomyr and Kiev.
After the end of World War I, prob. took part in the battles for the borders of the Second Polish Republic, including the Polish–Russian war of 1919‑1921 (perhaps to Poland returned during the so–called Kiev expedition of Polish troops in 04‑05.1920).
After the end of World War I prob. took part in wars for Polish borders including Polish–Russian war of 1920.
From 1922 chaplain of the Polish Army with seniority from 01.06.1919.
Senior chaplain of Polish Army from 01.01.1934, dean from 19.03.1937.
After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II arrested by the Russians after 17.09.1939.
Jailed in Starobielsk concentration camp.
On Christmas Eve of 24.12.1939 moved to Butyrki prison in Moscow and on 11.04.1940 to Kozielsk concentration camp.
From there — based on the order of the leadership of Russia and export list No 052/4 — transported to Katyń execution site and brutally murdered.
During the exhumation carried out by the Germans in 1943, his body was identified and marked with the number 2713 (or 2743).
cause of death
mass murder
perpetrators
Russians
date and place
of birth
21.08.1893
Czerteżtoday: Sanok gm., Sanok pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18]
presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
1917 (Holy Dormition Pochaiv Lavramore on
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[access: 2023.02.20])
positions held
19.03.1937 – 1939
Chaplain in Chief {Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.10.09], The Main Military Pastoral Office of the Orthodox Church, Polish Army}, dean — in the rank of lieutenant colonel with the 1st place in the ranks of the Orthodox deans — approved on 06.04.1936, in 2007 posthumously promoted to the rank of colonel
19.03.1937
protopresbiter {Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PACP}, dignity conferment
02.05.1937
mitrate {Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PACP}, dignity conferment
05.1935 – 19.03.1937
Chaplain in Chief {Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.10.09], The Main Military Pastoral Office of the Orthodox Church, Polish Army}, acting („ad interim”), senior chaplain — in the rank of major
04.02.1934 – c. 05.1935
military dean {Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.10.09], Orthodox military ministry, Command of the Corps District DOK No. I Warsaw, Polish Army}, senior chaplain, with seniority from 01.01.1939 with the 1st place in the ranks of the Orthodox chaplains — in the rank of major; also: from 20.03.1923 temporary deputy of the Chief Chaplain of the Main Military Pastoral Office of the Orthodox Church in the Office of Non–Catholic Religions of the Ministry of Military Affairs, till 20.03.1923 clerk at this Office
06.11.1928 – 04.02.1934
military dean {Lublintoday: Lublin city pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.08.20], Orthodox military ministry, Command of the Corps District DOK No. II Lublin, Polish Army}, chaplain — in the rank of captain
15.04.1928
protoiereus (Eng. first priest) {Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PACP}, dignity conferment
01.12.1922 – 06.11.1928
military dean {Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01], Orthodox military ministry, Command of the Corps District DOK No. X Przemyśl, Polish Army}, chaplain — in the rank of captain; also: periodically ministry in garrisons of the Command of the Corps District DOK No V Kraków
from 15.11.1922
chaplain {Polish Army}, with seniority from 01.06.1919
presbiter (Eng. priest, i.e. iereus) {Koveltoday: Kovel urban hrom., Kovel rai., Volyn, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.12.19]}, prob.
presbiter (Eng. priest, i.e. iereus) {Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02]}, prob.
1917
presbiter (Eng. priest, i.e. iereus) {Pochaivtoday: Pochaiv urban hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.09.27], Dormition of the Mother of God (Pochaiv Lavra), Russian Orthodox Church}, priesthood ordination
till c. 1917
student {Zhytomyrtoday: Zhytomyr urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17], philosophy and theology, Orthodox Theological Seminary}
from 1917
married three sons (all died fighting the Germans during World War II — two during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, one fighting in the ranks of the Polish Army in the West)
others related
in death
ALEKSANDROWICZClick to display biography Anthony, CHOMAClick to display biography Edward Anthony, CICHOWICZClick to display biography Nicholas, DRABCZYŃSKIClick to display biography Ignatius Marian (Cl. Dominic), ILKÓWClick to display biography Nicholas, KONTEKClick to display biography Stanislaus, PANAŚClick to display biography Joseph, POHORECKIClick to display biography John, POTOCKIClick to display biography John Josaphat, SUCHCICKIClick to display biography Casimir, URBANClick to display biography Vladislav Michael, ZIÓŁKOWSKIClick to display biography John Leo, SZEPTYCKIClick to display biography Andrew Mary Stanislaus, FEDOROŃKOClick to display biography Michael
murder sites
camp
(+ prisoner no)
Katyń: From 03.04.1940 till 12.05.1940 Russians in a planned genocide executed in Katyń approx. 4,400 Polish prisoners of war (POW) kept in Kozielsk concentration camp. This was a fulfillment of Russian Commie–Nazi government decision – Political Bureau of the Russian Commie–Nazi party of 05.03.1940 – to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and individuals held in Russian POW camps following Ribbentrop–Molotov German–Russian accord and annexation of half of Poland into Russia, confirmed by the order No.00350 of the head of the NKVD, Mr Lavrentyi Beria, on the "discharge of NKVD prisons" in Ukraine and Belarus. There are indications – i.e. 4 so–called "NKVD–Gestapo Methodical Conferences" of 1939–40: in Brześć on Bug, Przemyśl, Zakopane and Cracow – of close collaboration between Germans and Russians in realization of plans of total extermination of Polish nation, its elites in particular – decision that prob. was confirmed during meeting of socialist leaders of Germany: Mr Heinrich Himmler, and Russia: Mr Lavrentyi Beria, in another German leader's hunting lodge: Mr Hermann Göring, in Rominty in Romincka Forest in East Prussia. Earlier at the same spot Russians murdered thousands of victims in 1937. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.09.21])
Kozielsk (prisoner no: 2713): In 1939‑40 in Kozielsk Russians set a concentration camp for Poles arrested after 1939 invasion of Poland. In 04.1940 approx. 4,300 were kept there and subsequently— as the fulfillment of Russian government decision to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and prisoners of war camps (Polish holocaust) — were executed in Katyń. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23])
Moscow (Butyrki): Harsh transit and interrogation prison in Moscow — for political prisoners — where Russians held and murdered thousands of Poles. Founded prob. in XVII century. In XIX century many Polish insurgents (Polish uprisings of 1831 and 1863) were held there. During Communist regime a place of internment for political prisoners prior to a transfer to Russian slave labour complex Gulag. During the Great Purge c. 20,000 inmates were held there at any time (c. 170 in every cell). Thousands were murdered. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.05.01])
Starobielsk: In 1939‑41 in Starobielsk Russians set a concentration camp for Poles arrested after 1939 invasion of Poland. In 04.1940 approx. 3,800 were kept there and subsequently— as the fulfillment of Russian government decision to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and prisoners of war camps (Polish holocaust) — were executed in Twer. Used as a concentration camp for Poles later as well. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23])
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 Stanislaus 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
[access: 2015.09.30])
Polish-Russian war of 1919—21: War for independence of Poland and its borders. Poland regained independence in 1918 but had to fight for its borders with former imperial powers, in particular Russia. Russia planned to incite Bolshevik–like revolutions in the Western Europe and thus invaded Poland. Russian invaders were defeated in 08.1920 in a battle called Warsaw battle („Vistula river miracle”, one of the 10 most important battles in history, according to some historians). Thanks to this victory Poland recaptured part of the lands lost during partitions of Poland in XVIII century, and Europe was saved from the genocidal Communism. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20])
sources
personal:
www.radaopwim.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23], pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19], www.academia.eduClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.08.19], episkopat.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.10.13]
bibliograhical:, „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,
original images:
www.radaopwim.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23], pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2016.03.14], pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2016.03.14], radio.lublin.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2022.05.23], ofm.krakow.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2022.05.23]
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