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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

SZCZERBA

surname
versions/aliases

SZCZYRBA

forename(s)

Leonid Bogdan

function

eparchial priest

creed

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

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

diocese / province

Lviv GC archeparchymore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

nationality

Ukrainian

date and place
of death

23.05.1946

Khorosnotoday: Solonka hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.08.05]

details of death

After end of the World War II military hostilities, started by German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939, after start in 1944 of another Russian occupation, after arrest by the Russian on 11.04.1945 of all Greek Catholic bishops on pre‑war Polish territories occupied by the Russians, apostasized and joined Orthodoxy (during or after so‑called pseudo–council of Lviv on 08‑10.03.1946 which he attended that decreed „closure” of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and it's incorporation into Russian Orthodox Church and).

Had no illusions — allegedly claimed that „the council requires us to become Orthodox priests. If we refuse, we will be arrested, and if we agree to be Orthodox, the partisans and rural intelligentsia are against it. I agreed to convert to Orthodoxy, but it was only an appearance. In fact, I decided temporarily, before the next war, to take up another job. I will return home and declare that I have decided to get married so that I can be released from the church”.

Returned to his parish and there — the murders committed by Ukrainians on Poles, during «Genocidium Atrox», i.e. genocide known also as „Volyn massacres”, still continued — was after a few months, on his birthday, hacked to death with an ax (prob. by a unit of the Ukrainian genocidal OUN/UPA organization), because, according to Polish sources, opposed the murders. More likely however is that the reason for the murder was the announcement of conversion to Orthodoxy.

alt. details of death

According to some unreliable Ukrainian sources murdered by Russians — Commies — for refusal to convert to Orthodoxy.

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Ukrainians

date and place
of birth

23.05.1912

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1936

positions held

1946

apostasy — conversion from Greek Catholic Church to Orthodox Church

till 1946

priest — Dobryanytoday: Trostyanets hrom., Stryi rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ Nativity of Christ GC parish ⋄ Shchyretstoday: Shchyrets hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.01.22]
GC deanery

administrator — Khorosnotoday: Solonka hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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⋄ Blessed Virgin Mary GC parish ⋄ Shchyretstoday: Shchyrets hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.01.22]
GC deanery

from c. 1938

vicar — Demnyatoday: Trostyanets hrom., Stryi rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ St Nicholas the Wonderworker GC parish ⋄ Mykolaivtoday: Mykolaiv urban hrom., Stryi rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.01.22]
GC deanery

1937

vicar — Krasnetoday: Krasne hrom., Zolochiv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.02.12]
⋄ St Elijah the Prophet GC parish ⋄ Busktoday: Busk urban hrom., Zolochiv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.11.20]
GC deanery

1936 – 1937

vicar — Demnyatoday: Trostyanets hrom., Stryi rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ St Nicholas the Wonderworker GC parish ⋄ Mykolaivtoday: Mykolaiv urban hrom., Stryi rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.01.22]
GC deanery

till 1936

student — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Greek Catholic Theological Seminary

murder sites
camp 
(+ prisoner no)

«Genocidium Atrox»: In 1939‑1947, especially in 1943‑1944, independent Ukrainian units, mainly belonging to genocidal Ukrainian organizations OUN (political arm) and UPA (military arm), supported by local Ukrainian population, murdered — often in extremely brutal way — in Volyn and surrounding regions of pre‑war Poland, from 130,000 to 180,000 Poles, all civilians: men, women, children, old and young. Polish–Ukrainian conflict that openly emerged during and after World War I (in particular resulting in Polish–Ukrainian war of 1918‑1919), that survived and even deepened later when western Ukraine became a part Poland, exploded again after the outbreak of the World War II in 09.1939. During Russian occupation of 1939‑1941, when hundreds of thousands of Poles were deported into central Russia, when tens of thousands were murdered (during so‑called Katyń massacres, among others), this open conflict had a limited character, helped by the fact that at that time Ukrainians, Ukrainian nationalists in particular, were also persecuted by the Russians. The worst came after German–Russian war started on 22.06.1941 and German occupation resulted. Initially Ukrainians supported Germans (Ukrainian police was initiated, Ukrainians co—participated in extermination of the Jews and were joining army units fighting alongside Germans). Later when German ambivalent position towards Ukraine became apparent Ukrainians started acting independently. And in 1943 one of the units of aforementioned Ukrainian OUN/UPA organization, in Volyn, started and perpetrated a genocide of Polish population of this region. In mere few weeks OUN/UPA murdered, with Germans passively watching on the sidelines, more than 40,000 Poles. This strategy was consequently approved and adopted by all OUN/UPA organisations and similar genocides took place in Eastern Lesser Poland (part of Ukraine) where more than 20,000 Poles were slaughtered, meeting however with growing resistance from Polish population. Further west, in Chełm, Rzeszów, etc. regions this genocide turned into an extremely bloody conflict. In general genocide, perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists, partly collaborating with German occupants, on vulnerable Polish population took part in hundreds of villages and small towns, where virtually all Polish inhabitants were wiped out. More than 200 priests, religious and nuns perished in this holocaust — known as «Genocidium Atrox» (Eng. „savage genocide”) The nature and purpose of genocide is perhaps best reflected in the song sung by the murderers: „We will slaughter the Poles, we will cut down the Jews, we must conquer the great Ukraine” (ukr. „Поляків виріжем, Євреїв видусим, велику Україну здобути мусим”). This holocaust and conflict ended up in total elimination of Polish population and Polish culture from Ukraine, in enforced deportations in 1944‑1945 of remaining Poles from Ukraine and some Ukrainians into Ukraine proper, and finally in deportation of Ukrainians from East‑South to the Western parts of Polish republic prl by Commie‑Nazi Russian controlled Polish security forces („Vistula Action”). (more on: www.swzygmunt.knc.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.06.20]
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General Governorate: A separate administrative territorial region set up by the Germans in 1939 after defeat of Poland, which included German‑occupied part of Polish territory that was not directly incorporate into German state. Created as the result of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, in a political sense, was to recreate the German idea of 1915 (after the defeat of the Russians in the Battle of Gorlice in 05.1915 during World War I) of establishing a Polish enclave within Germany (also called the General Governorate at that time). It was run by the Germans till 1945 and final Russian offensive, and was a part of so–called Big Germany — Grossdeutschland. Till 31.07.1940 formally known as Germ. Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete (Eng. General Governorate for occupied Polish territories) — later as simply niem. Generalgouvernement (Eng. General Governorate). From 07.1941 expanded to include district Galicia. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.12.04]
)

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
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[access: 2023.05.28]
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