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
TARNAWSKI
forename(s)
Severin Michael (pl. Seweryn Michał)
forename(s)
versions/aliases
Michael Emanuil (pl. Mychajło Emanuił)
religious forename(s)
Manuil (pl. Manuił)
function
bishop
creed
Eastern Orthodox Church ORmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]
diocese / province
Volodymyr‐Suzdal OR eparchymore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.07.16]
Volyn OR eparchy (Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PAOC)more on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
nationality
Ukrainian
date and place
of death
11.09.1943
Zimnetoday: Zimne hrom., Volodymyr rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
alt. dates and places
of death
25.09.1943
details of death
After the German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and the start of World War II, after the start of the Russian occupation, arrested in 1940 by the genocidal Russian NKVD organization.
Held in Lutzk prison.
Released in 1941.
After German attack on 22.06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, the Russians, and the start o German occupation, during the «Genocidium Atrox» — genocide, known also as „Volyn massacres”, perpetrated by Ukrainians on the defenseless Polish population — in connection with the abandonment of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and the transition under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, threatened with death (beginning of 08.1943).
At the end of 08.1943 or at the beginning of 09.1943 kidnapped from his residence in Volodymyr–Volynskyi.
Refused to return to the Ukrainian church and take command of the militia of the genocidal Ukrainian OUN/UPA organization.
Found guilty of „treason to the Ukrainian nation and hostile activity” and murdered.
The corpse was hung from a roadside tree.
cause of death
murder
perpetrators
Ukrainians
date and place
of birth
14.02.1904
Burdyakivtsitoday: Skala‐Podilska hrom., Chortkiv rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.08.05]
religious vows
1942 (permanent)
presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
19.08.1933 (Kremenetstoday: Kremenets urban hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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positions held
from 22.07.1942
bishop — Russian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate ⋄ Russian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate
22.07.1942 – 06.06.1943
auxiliary bishop — Volodymyr‐Volynskyitoday: Volodymyr, Volodymyr urban hrom., Volodymyr rai., Volyn, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ vicariate, Russian Orthodox Church ⋄ vicariate, Russian Orthodox Church
22.07.1942
Bishop — Russian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate — repeat bishop's cheirotonia, i.e. ordination (due to the Moscow Patriarchate not recognizing the autocephaly of the UAOC Church), in the Pochaev Lavra in Kiev; alternative dates: : 30.07.1942, 04.08.1942
c. 08.07.1942
conversion — Russian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate — transition, through repentance, from UAOC Church to the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate
from 11.05.1942
auxiliary bishop — Bila Tserkvatoday: Bila Tserkva urban hrom., Bila Tserkva rai., Kiev, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17] ⋄ vicariate, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church UAOC ⋄ vicariate, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church UAOC — appointment, conflicting views on whether he practically took over the eparchy
11.05.1942
Bishop — Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church UAOC — bishop's cheirotonia, i.e. ordination, in St Andrew church (cathedral) in Kiev
1942
Archimandrite, i.e. superior abbot — Russian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate
from 05.1942
hieromonk — Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church UAOC
c. 03.1942
priest — Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02] ⋄ St Andrew OR church — after capture of Kiev by Germans
12.1941 – c. 03.1942
priest — Lutsktoday: Lutsk city rai., Volyn, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17] ⋄ Holy Trinity OR cathedral church
12.1941
conversion — Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church UAOC — transition, after German attack on 22.06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, Russians, and start of German occupation,to the UAOC, not recognized by the Moscow Patriarchate
c. 10.1939 – c. 12.1941
parish priest — Hirka Polonkatoday: Lutsk rai., Volyn, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.06.12] ⋄ Our Lord's Resurrection OR parish — from the beginning of 1940, also ministered the Orthodox church in the nearby (c. 3 km) village of Baiv
c. 10.1939
conversion — Russian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate — coming under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate in connection with the Russian invasion of Poland and the beginning of the Russian occupation
protoiereus (Eng. first priest) — Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PACP — dignity conferment
03.12.1936 – 1939
parish priest — Zhukovetstoday: Horokhiv hrom., Lutsk rai., Volyn, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.06.12] ⋄ Transfiguration of the Lord OR parish ⋄ Lutsk 4th distr.Orthodox deanery name
today: Volyn, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17] OR deanery — in 1935‐1938 published c. 20 works in the official organ of the Volyn–Kremenets eparchy magazine „Церква i нарiд” (Eng. „Church and people”), a number of articles in the magazine „Шлях” (Eng. „Way”), a few sermons in the Lutsk newspaper „Украïньска нива” (Eng. „Ukrainian field”)
c. 09.01.1934 – 1936
parish priest — Batkivtoday: Radyvyliv urban hrom., Dubno rai., Rivne, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.06.12] ⋄ Transfiguration of the Lord OR parish ⋄ Dubno 4th distr.Orthodox deanery name
today: Dubno rai., Rivne, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.11.27] OR deanery — also: from 17.07.1936 deanery missionary in Dubno county
08.1933 – 1934
priest — Kremenetstoday: Kremenets urban hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.10.18] ⋄ St Nicholas OR church ⋄ Epiphany of the Lord OR monastery — with responsibility for the monastery; from 03.1933 to 08.1933 deacon in the monastery
c. 19.08.1933
presbiter (Eng. priest, i.e. iereus) — Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PACP — priesthood cheirotonia, i.e. ordination in Kremenetz, preceded on 19.03.1933 by deacon cheirotonia
1932 – 1933
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)]
c. 1932
psalmist — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.10.09] ⋄ Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PACP
12.09.1932
apostasy — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.10.09] — conversion from Greek Catholic Church to Orthodox Church
c. 1932
lecturer — Stanislavivtoday: Ivano‐Frankivsk, Stanislaviv/Ivano‐Frankivsk rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano‐Frankivsk, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.11.20] ⋄ Greek Catholic Theological Seminary — also: preparation a dissertation for submission to the Greek Catholic Theological Academy in Lviv
1930 – 1932
student — Albertintoday: part fo Slonim, Slonim dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2021.09.29] ⋄ Sacred Heart of Jesus monastery (known as Eastern Mission), Jesuits SI
1928 – 1930
student — Krekhivtoday: Zhovkva urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.08.06] ⋄ Greek Catholic Theological School, Basilians OSBM ⋄ St Nicholas GC monastery
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])
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 Ribbentrop‐Molotov 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 Germ. 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])
06.1941 massacres (NKVD) (prisoner no: Ribbentrop—Mołotow): After German attack of Russian‐occupied Polish territory and following that of Russia itself, before a panic escape, Russians murdered — in accordance with the genocidal order issued on 24.06.1941 by the Russian interior minister Lawrence Beria to murder all prisoners (formally „sentenced” for „counter‐revolutionary activities”, „anti‐Russian acts”, sabotage and diversion, and political prisoners „in custody”), held in NKVD‐run prisons in Russian occupied Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia — c. 40,000‐50,000 prisoners. In addition Russians murdered many thousands of victims arrested after German attack regarding them as „enemies of people” — those victims were not even entered into prisons’ registers. Most of them were murdered in massacres in the prisons themselves, the others during so‐called „death marches” when the prisoners were driven out east. After Russians departure and start of German occupation a number of spontaneous pogroms of Jews took place. Many Jews collaborated with Russians and were regarded as co‐responsible for prison massacres. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19])
sources
personal:
zustrich.quebec-ukraine.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.01.06], www.wolaniecom.parafia.info.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.01.06], www.sedmitza.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20], ru.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20]
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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