canonisation date

22.06.1993

Council of Bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

function

archbishop

creed

Eastern Orthodox Church
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diocese / province

Orthodox Kursk and Oboyan eparchy
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Orthodox Staryi Oskol eparchy
Orthodox Kherson and Odessa eparchy
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academic distinctions

holy theology candidate

date and place of death

01.06.1938

Blagoveshchensk
Amur oblast, Russia

details of death

During Russian civil war abducted by bandits — during a raid on St Gregory's monastery in Krasnyi Mayak where ministered. The monastery was destroyed. Released by local peasants. On 10.02.1923, 6 days after his bishop's ordination arrested by Russian Bolsheviks in Yelisavetgrad and accused of opposing the so–called the renovationist movement in Russian Church, not registering in NKVD offices after arrival and espionage. Held in Yelisavetgrad and Odessa. Released on 15.05.1923, after signing the pledge not to return to Odessa. In 10.1923 arrested again by the Russians in Kryvyi Rih, after writing a pastoral letter criticising activities of so‑called Live Church. Held in Kharkiv prison. Released in 01.1924, under condition to stay in Kharkiv. In the autumn on 1926 arrested again. On 09.11.1926 sentenced to 3 years of exile in Kudymkar village in Urals, in 10.1928 while in exile arrested again and jailed in Tobolsk. Exiled to Surgut village on Ob river, and next to remote Uvat village. After the end of exile returned to central Russia and at the end of 1929 settled in Staryi Oskol. Allowed to celebrate liturgy in one church only. Forbidden to visit other churches in the region. Thrice evicted from the apartment where lived. In 03.1933 arrested yet again and accused of counter–revolutionary activities. After two weeks in Staryi Oskol prison transferred to Voronezh. Released in 06.1933. In Kursk, where subsequently moved, was allowed to minister in one church only as well. On 23.07.1935 arrested in Kursk. Accused of making homilies too often, illegaly ordaining priests and supporting priests returning from exile — i.e. leading a counter–revolutionary group. On 09.12.1935 sentenced to 10 years of slave labour in Russian concentration camps Gulag. Transported to NKVD kolkhoz/farm in Serednyobil village in Amur region. There on 27.02.1938 — as a prisoner — accused of anti–Russian activities. Taken to Blagoveshchensk prison. On 17.03.1938 sentenced by Russian genocidal kangaroo court, known as Troika NKVD, to death. Murdered in an unknown spot, in the group of a dozen or so clerics.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Russians

date and place of birth

02.04.1889

Opole Lubelskie
Opole Lubelskie pow., Lublin voiv., Poland

religious vows

05.10.1913 (permanent)

presbyter (holy orders)/
ordination

08.12.1913

positions held

Archbishop of Kursk and Oboyan eparchy (from 30.01.1934), f. bishop of Kursk and Oboyan eparchy (from 22.11.1933), f. bishop of Byelgorod (from 11.08.1933) — administrator of Kursk and Oboyan eparchy, f. bishop of Staryi Okol eparchy (c. 1929), f. bishop of Yelisavetgrad (from 1923) — vicar of Kherson and Odessa eparchy, bishop's ordination on 04.02.1923 in Pecherskaya Lavra in Kiev, f. minister fo St Nicholas church in Kryvyi Rih (1922‑2), f. archimandrite (from 1922), f. hegumen (from 1922), f. minister of Assumption church in Beryslav (from c. 1918), f. Russian Church history lecturer at Pastoral Missionary Seminary of Kherson eparchy at St Gregory Bysukov monastery in Krasyi Mayak village (1915‑8), f. theology teacher at St Onuphrius monastery in Jabłeczna, f. theology and philosophy student at Orthodox Theological Academy in Sankt Petersburg (till 1915), f. theology and philosophy student at Orthodox Theological Seminary in Sankt Petersburg in Chełm

others related in death

KULHAWIEC Simeon, STEPANIUK George, GUDKO Vasil (Bp Ambrose), NIKATOW Alex, OSTROUMOW Michael (Bp Seraphim), SAWICKI Yaroslav, SIENKIEWICZ Alex, STROCIUK Leontius, BLUMOWICZ John, SZACHMUĆ Roman (Fr Seraphim), PANASIEWICZ Emilian, MIEDWIEDIUK Vladimir, SMOLENIEC Alexander (Abp Arsenius), MARCENKO Alexander (Abp Anthony), BORZAKOWSKI Alexander (Abp Agapit), DIERNOW Anatol (Abp Abramius)

murder sites
camps (+ prisoner no)

11.08.1937 Russian genocide: On 11.08.1937 Russian leader Stalin decided and NKWD head, Nicholas Jeżow, signed a „Polish operation” executive order no 00485. 139,835 Poles living in Russia were thus sentenced summarily to death. 111,091 were murdered. 28,744 were sentenced to deportation to concentration camps in Gulag. Altogether however more than 100,000 Poles were deported, mainly to Kazakhstan, Siberia, Kharkov and Dniepropetrovsk. (more on: en.wikipedia.org [access: 2016.03.14])

Great Purge 1937: In the summer of 1937 Polish Catholic priests held in Solovetsky Islands, Anzer Island and BelBaltLag were locked in prison cells (some in Sankt Petersburg). Next in a few kangaroo, murderous Russian trials (on 09.10.1937, 25.11.1937, among others) run by so‑called „Troika NKVD” all were sentenced to death. They were subsequently executed by a single shot to the back of the head. The murders took place either in Sankt Petersburg prison or directly in places of mass murder, e.g. Sandarmokh or Levashov Wilderness, where their bodies were dumped into the ditches. Other priests were arrested in the places they still ministered in and next murdered in local NKVD headquarters (e.g. in Minsk in Belarus), after equally genocidal trials run by aforementioned „Troika NKVD” kangaroo courts.

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: pl.wikipedia.org [access: 2014.05.09], en.wikipedia.org [access: 2014.05.09])

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