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St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

BAŁAHURAK

forename(s)

Vladimir (pl. Włodzimierz)

religious forename(s)

Gregory (pl. Grzegorz)

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function

bishop

creed

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

congregation

Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat (Basilians - OSBM)more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

Stanyslaviv eparchymore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]

nationality

Ukrainian

date and place
of death

02.10.1965

Korkinotoday: Korkino reg., Chelyabinsk oblast, Russia
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[access: 2022.08.05]

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after German defeat and start in 1944 of another Russian occupation, secretly ordained as bishop in 04.1945 by Bp Gregory Chomyszyn — who faced imminent arrest (that in fact took place on 15.04.1945).

After formal dissolution of the Greek Catholic Church by the Russians in 1946 and its incorporation into Orthodox Church lived secretly? in Stanislaviv and nearby Pogonya village where Holy Mary Assumption into Heaven monastery is located (till 1948).

Next worked as a mechanic in Stanislaviv.

There, straight from a street, arrested by the Russians on 13/15.10.1949.

Accused of „being hostile to the Russian authorities, leading Greek Catholic opposition, conducting anti–Russian activities, fostering religious prejudices of citizens, organising criminal relations with the states hostile to Russia”.

On 11.10.1950 sentenced to 10 years of slave labour in Russian slave labour concentration camps Gulag.

Transported to KarLag camp, no 9 in Dolinka village in Kazakhstan.

Released on 31.05.1956.

Returned to Stanislaviv.

In 1957 evicted from there by the Russians (or arrested again).

Went into exile, to Rosa village near Korkino town, c. 40 km from oblast's capital Chelabinsk.

There slaved at furniture factory and there perished — while manning a wood machine, prob. „from heart attack”.

The body was brought back to Stanislaviv, where was buried.

cause of death

extermination

perpetrators

Russians

date and place
of birth

05.07.1909

Stanislavivtoday: Ivano–Frankivsk, Stanislaviv/Ivano–Frankivsk rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano–Frankivsk, Ukraine
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religious vows

01.05.1927 (temporary)
16.12.1934 (permanent)

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

21.05.1936 (Zhovkvatoday: Zhovkva urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.11.22]
)

positions held

1945 – 1965

auxiliary bishop (łac. episcopus auxiliaris) {dioc.: Stanislaviv (Greek Catholic eparchy)}, ordination: on 04.1945

1941 – 1945

prior {Stanislavivtoday: Ivano–Frankivsk, Stanislaviv/Ivano–Frankivsk rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano–Frankivsk, Ukraine
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, monastery, Basilians Order OSBM}

1938 – 1941

friar {Krystynopiltoday: Chervonohrad, Chervonohrad urban hrom., Chervonohrad rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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, St George monastery, Basilians Order OSBM}, also: administrator of various parishes

1936 – 1938

friar {Stanislavivtoday: Ivano–Frankivsk, Stanislaviv/Ivano–Frankivsk rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano–Frankivsk, Ukraine
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, monastery, Basilians Order OSBM}, also: parish administrator

1935 – 1936

student {Zhovkvatoday: Zhovkva urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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, philosophy and theology, Nativity of Christ monastery, Basilians Order OSBM}

1933 – 1935

student {Krystynopiltoday: Chervonohrad, Chervonohrad urban hrom., Chervonohrad rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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, Theological Study, St George monastery, Basilians Order OSBM}

1933

friar {Buchachtoday: Buchach urban hrom., Chortkiv rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.11.15]
, Exaltation of the Holy Cross monastery, Basilians Order OSBM}, also: Ukrainian, German, Latin, Greek, singing and music teacher at the Mission Institute

1930 – 1932

friar {Dobromyltoday: Dobromyl urban hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.10.09]
, St Onuphrius monastery, Basilians Order OSBM}

1927 – 1930

friar {Lavrivtoday: Staryi Sambir urban hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.08.06]
, St Onuphrius monastery, Basilians Order OSBM}

1925 – 1927

novitiate {Krekhivtoday: Zhovkva urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.08.06]
, St Nicholas monastery, Basilians Order OSBM}

from 06.09.1925

friar {Basilians Order OSBM}

others related
in death

CHOMYSZYNClick to display biography Gregory, ŁUKACZClick to display biography Simon

murder sites
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Forced exile: One of the standard Russian forms of repression. The prisoners were usually taken to a small village in the middle of nowhere — somewhere in Siberia, in far north or far east — dropped out of the train carriage or a cart, left out without means of subsistence or place to live. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20]
)

KarLag: Russian concentration camp and forced labour camp n. Karaganda in Kazakhstan. One of the largest in Gulag penal system, operational in 1930‑59 (though even later parts of the camp were used as a new concentration camp and prison). Stretched over 300 by 200 km, centered in Dolinka village, c. 45 km from Karaganda. One of the goals was creation a large food base for the developing coal and metallurgical industries of Kazakhstan. 10,000 to 65,000 (in 1949) prisoners — including women and children many of whom perished — were held in the camp at any one time. In total over 1,000,000 inmates slaved in KarLag over its history. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.10.13]
)

Gulag: Network of Russian slave labour concentration camps. At any given time up to 12 mln inmates where held in them, milions perished. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09]
)

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]
)

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