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

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religious status

blessed

surname

ŁAKOTA

forename(s)

Gregory (pl. Grzegorz)

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    Burial site, Abez
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    Commemorative plaque, Holy Cross church, Węgorzewo
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beatification date

27.06.2001more on
www.swzygmunt.knc.pl
[access: 2013.05.19]

the RC Pope John Paul IImore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]

function

bishop

creed

Ukrainian Greek Catholic GCmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

diocese / province

Przemyśl GC eparchymore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

academic distinctions

Doctor of Theology

honorary titles

Papal chamberlainmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.22]

nationality

Ukrainian

date and place
of death

04.11.1950

MinLag labour campGULAG slave labour camp network
today: Abez, Komi rep., Russia

more on
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[access: 2022.01.09]

alt. dates and places
of death

05.11.1950, 12.11.1950, 06.11.1954

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after fall of Poland remained in German–occupied part of his eparchy.

Ministered from Yaroslav.

After German attack on 22.06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, Russians, returned to Przemyśl.

After the end of military hostilities of the World War II, after German defeat and start in 1944 of another Russian occupation, after formal outlawing on 08‑10.03.1946 of Greek Catholic Church and incorporating its structures into Russian Orthodox church on the territories directly occupied by the Russian, e.g. in Ukraine, arrested on 28.06.1946 in Przemyśl (his superior, Bp Kocyłowski, was arrested a day earlier), by Commie–Nazi UB, Polish unit of Russian MGB (successor of genocidal NKVD), led by a Russian MGB officer.

On the same day transported out to Lviv.

There, in Zboishchy district — where settled despite an order to move to nearby Vynnyki — on 25.07.1946 (or on 03.07.1946) arrested again, this time by the Russians.

Held in Lviv in on Łąckiego Str. prison.

Next on c. 14.08.1946 transported to Kiev where held in Lyukyanivska Str. prison.

Accused of „betrayal of the Ukrainian people, cooperation with Nazi Germany and espionage for the Vatican”, „heading of activities of anti–Russian Catholic Action organization”.

On 19‑21.02.1947 in Kiev tried by a criminal Russian kangaroo court „Troika MGB” and sentenced to 8 years of slave labour in Russian concentration camps Gulag.

From 01.10.1947 held in Bilychi (today one Kiev's districts).

From there transported to VorkutLag where n. Vorkuta slaved in coal mines.

On 28.04.1950 taken to a camp's „hospital” in Abez village, in MinLag concentration camp group.

There perished, suffering form lung and larynx tuberculosis.

cause of death

extermination

perpetrators

Russians

date and place
of birth

31.01.1883

Holodivkatoday: Zadnistrani, Rudky urban hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.08.05]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

30.08.1908 (Greek Catholic Przemyśl cathedral)

positions held

1926 – 1950

titular bishop — appointment: on 10.02.1926; ordination: on 16.05.1926, in the Birth of the John the Baptist cathedral in Przemyśl

1926 – 1950

auxiliary bishop (Lat. episcopus auxiliaris) — appointment: on 10.02.1926

1925 – 1926

archpresbyter — Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
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⋄ Cathedral Chapter ⋄ Nativity of St John the Baptist GC cathedral church

1924 – 1926

vicar general

1918 – 1926

rector — Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.04.01]
⋄ Greek Catholic Theological Seminary

from 1913

professor — Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01]
⋄ Greek Catholic Theological Seminary — lecturer in the history of the Church, canon law, homiletics and catechetics

till 1913

PhD student — Viennatoday: Vienna state, Austria
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ theology, St Augustine Higher Scientific Institute for Diocesan Priests („Augustineum/Frintaneum”) — PhD thesis Germ. „Die Bedeutung derBergpredigt bei Matthäus” (Eng. „The meaning of Matthew's Sermon on the Mount”), public defense on 02.07.1913k

from c. 1910

secretary — Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.04.01]
⋄ Eparchial Consistory (i.e. Curia) ⋄ Eparchial Consistory (i.e. Curia) — also: prefect of elementary schools

1908 – c. 1910

vicar — Trostyanetstoday: village non–existent, Yavoriv urban hrom., Yavoriv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.08.05]
⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary GC parish ⋄ Yavorivtoday: Yavoriv urban hrom., Yavoriv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
GC deanery

till 1908

student — Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.04.01]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Greek Catholic Theological Seminary

from 1903

student — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ Department of Theology, [clandestine John Casimir University (1941‑1944) / Ivan Franko University (1940‑1941) / John Casimir University (1919‑1939) / Franciscan University (1817‑1918)]

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KOCYŁOWSKIClick to display biography Joseph (Bp Josaphat), RESZETYŁOClick to display biography Roman, KAJETANOWICZClick to display biography Dennis (Fr Roman), OLEŃSKIClick to display biography Peter (Fr Paul), OSADCAClick to display biography Michael, HRUSZKIEWICZClick to display biography Theodore, ŁOPACZAKClick to display biography Elias

murder sites
camp 
(+ prisoner no)

Abez: Penal GUŁAG camp 274/17 „B” in a village Abez on Usa river, by the Pechorska train line (Kotlas—Vorkuta) in Russian Komi republic (beyond Arctic Circle) belonging to various complexes of slave labour concentration camps: SevPechLag (1940‑1950), MinLag (1948‑1957) and PechorLag (1950‑1959). Prisoners slaved at coal transport form Vorkuta mines, goods shipments, aforementioned railway line construction, including bridge over Usa river. It contained a „central hospital” for those camps, including totally exhausted inmates of VorkutLag. (more on: zeslaniec.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.10]
, gulagmuseum.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.14]
)

MinLag: Special GULAG camp No1 — Mineral (MinLag) — in Russian Komi republic, with a centre in Inta (beyond Arctic Circle). Founded on 28.02.1948 on the territory formerly under IntaLag concentration camp control. Disbanded on 06.08.1957 (when was incorporated into PechorLag camp system). Prisoners slaved in coal mines, mining gold and quartz, at road construction, brick making, etc. (more on: ipn.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.10]
, www.sciesielski.republika.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.10]
)

VorkutLag: Russian complex of concentration camps and forced labour camp (part of Gulag penal system), near Vorkuta in Komi republic, created on 10.15.1938 — as a result of the split of larger UktpechLag complex of camps — where Russians held many Poles prisoners. Up to 75,000 (at peak — in 1950‑1951 — c. 100,000) prisoners slaved there mainly in coal mines. In the most tragic 1943 c. 15.5% of prisoners held in the camp perished. Total number of victims of Vorkuta camps remains unknown. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09]
)

Gulag: The acronym Gulag comes from the Rus. Главное управление исправительно–трудовых лагерей и колоний (Eng. Main Board of Correctional Labor Camps). The network of Russian concentration camps for slave labor was formally established by the decision of the highest Russian authorities on 27.06.1929. Control was taken over by the OGPU, the predecessor of the genocidal NKVD (from 1934) and the MGB (from 1946). Individual gulags (camps) were often established in remote, sparsely populated areas, where industrial or transport facilities important for the Russian state were built. They were modeled on the first „great construction of communism”, the White Sea–Baltic Canal (1931‑1932), and Naftali Frenkel, of Jewish origin, is considered the creator of the system of using forced slave labor within the Gulag. Up to 12 mln prisoners were held there at one time, i.e. c. 5% of Russia's population. In his book „The Gulag Archipelago”, Alexander Solzhenitsyn estimated that c. 60 mln people were killed in the Gulag until 1956. Formally dissolved on 20.01.1960. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09]
, en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09]
)

Kiev (Lyukyanivska): Russian political prison in Kiev, in the first half of 20th century run by the genocidal NKVD, informally referred to as prison No 1, formally as Investigative Prison No 13 (SIZO#13). It was founded in the early 19th century. In the 20th century, during the Soviet times, the prison church was transformed into another block of cells. During the reign of J. Stalin in Russia, more than 25,000 prisoners passed through it. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.09.21]
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Lviv (Łąckiego): Prison at Łącki Str. in Lviv. Founded in 1918‑1920 by Polish authorities, mainly for political prisoners. From 1935 used as investigative jail. After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after start of Russian occupation Russians — local branch of Russian genocidal NKVD organisation — held thousands of prisoners, mainly Poles and Ukrainians, in prison (then prison no 1). It was also a place of carrying out death sentences passed by Russian summary courts on Poles suspected of participation in Polish clandestine resistance activities. In 06.1941, after German attack on 22.06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, Russians, NKVD agents slaugher — during genocidal massacres of prisoners — c. 924 inmates. During German occupation that followed in 1941‑1944 the prison’s buildings held German Gestapo investigative jail. It was a place of executions. In 1944‑1991, after German defeat and start of another Russian occupation, the building were again used by NKVD (and it successor MVD) as investigative jail and also investigative department. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.31]
)

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]
)

Pius XI's encyclicals: Facing the creation of two totalitarian systems in Europe, which seemed to compete with each other, though there were more similarities than contradictions between them, Pope Pius XI issued in 03.1937 (within 5 days) two encyclicals. In the „Mit brennender Sorge” (Eng. „With Burning Concern”) published on 14.03.1938, condemned the national socialism prevailing in Germany. The Pope wrote: „Whoever, following the old Germanic–pre–Christian beliefs, puts various impersonal fate in the place of a personal God, denies the wisdom of God and Providence […], whoever exalts earthly values: race or nation, or state, or state system, representatives of state power or other fundamental values of human society, […] and makes them the highest standard of all values, including religious ones, and idolizes them, this one […] is far from true faith in God and from a worldview corresponding to such faith”. On 19.03.1937, published „Divini Redemptoris” (Eng. „Divine Redeemer”), in which criticized Russian communism, dialectical materialism and the class struggle theory. The Pope wrote: „Communism deprives man of freedom, and therefore the spiritual basis of all life norms. It deprives the human person of all his dignity and any moral support with which he could resist the onslaught of blind passions […] This is the new gospel that Bolshevik and godless communism preaches as a message of salvation and redemption of humanity”… Pius XI demanded that the established human law be subjected to the natural law of God , recommended the implementation of the ideal of a Christian state and society, and called on Catholics to resist. Two years later, National Socialist Germany and Communist Russia came together and started World War II. (more on: www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28]
, www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28]
)

sources

personal:
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[access: 2013.05.19]
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[access: 2013.05.19]

bibliographical:
Clergy of Przemyśl Eparchy and Apostolic Exarchate of Lemkivshchyna”, Bogdan Prach, Ukrainian Catholic University Publishing House, Lviv 2015
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