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
religious status
Servant of God
surname
MALECKI
forename(s)
Anthony (pl. Antoni)
function
bishop
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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diocese / province
Mogilev archdiocesemore on
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[access: 2013.06.23]
honorary titles
Prelate‐cantor (Lat. praelati‐cantorus)more on
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[access: 2021.09.17]
(1916, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Stanislav the Bishop and Martyr RC archcathedral church, Mogilevtoday: Mogilev dist., Mogilev reg., Belarus
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honorary canonmore on
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[access: 2014.11.14]
(1902, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Stanislav the Bishop and Martyr RC archcathedral church, Mogilevtoday: Mogilev dist., Mogilev reg., Belarus
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Order of St Anna (Imperial Russia) 3rd classmore on
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[access: 2019.10.13]
(1915)
date and place
of death
17.01.1935
Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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details of death
Initially in 1884 Russian authorities prevented him taking a post of vicar in Minsk cathedral because of his parents' participation in January appraising in Poland in 1863.
When however they rescinded and he took the post he was in 05.1886 arrested for the protest against nomination of a Russian priest who planned to stop celebrating Masses in Polish as Minsk cathedral parish priest.
For „disobedience” sentenced to exile in Siberia soon changed — thanks to bribe collected by the parishioners and given to the local director of religious denominations — to 3 years of isolation in Anglona (Latvia) monastery.
Released after 7 months.
In 1918, after the fall of tsarism and the Bolshevik putsch in 10.1917 (with German help) in Russia, the Bolsheviks plundered all the works he had run — took over the shelters, summer resorts, schools for Polish children that he had founded and managed for years — under the pretext of nationalization.
In 03.1923, arrested by the Russians again.
Tried on 21‐25.03.1923 in a so‐called trial of Abp John Cieplak and 14 Catholic priests. One participant recalled: „The accused had no opportunity to respond to the charges […] The defense was not allowed to present witnesses; their attorneys were not allowed to present a proper defense; [the witnesses] were intimidated by arrest […] [The attorneys] did not dare to ask the opposing witnesses the same questions that any attorney in another country would ask them. And what about the injustice of the judges, the type of arguments used by the prosecutor, and the way the prosecutor managed the entire case”.
In his closing speech, said, among other things: „Our goal is to help the unfortunate and collect money for the poor, not for ourselves […] If my judges were Christians, I would tell them that God used [my father] to call me to be a priest and teach me to love the poor. After becoming a priest, I founded and directed shelters for poor children of all faiths in Petrograd […] Such a father confirmed in me the principle that all people are equal. Our Catholic faith teaches us this truth […] As long as a person is his own master and serves an ideal, he will not judge too harshly those who serve Christian ideals […] The most essential content of Christianity is love for all people and respect for them […] My first goal is to serve the truth, and beyond that I should fulfill the wishes of the government, as long as they do not go against the principles of my faith…”.
For „counter–revolutionary activities” sentence to 3 years in prison.
Jailed in Lefortowo and Łubianka prisons and correction house in Sokolniki in Moscow. In the latter suffered heart attack.
Released in 01.1925, thanks to a Bolshevik amnesty.
Returned to Sankt Petersburg.
After bishop's ordination in 1926 under constant surveillance and harassed by the Russians.
On 13.05.1927 forced to move to Arkhangelsk, but on 16.06.1927 returned to Sankt Petersburg.
Again, repeatedly harassed and interrogated.
For the last time arrested on 20.11.1930.
On 21.11.1930 sentenced by criminal Russian OGPU kangaroo court to 3 years of exile (according to some sources 10 years).
Transported to Dubinino n. Bratsk in Siberia.
On 27.02.1934, thanks to efforts and intervention of the Polish authorities, released, totally exhausted.
On 06.03.1934 returned to Sankt Petersburg, through Moscow left Russia, and on 28.04.1934 reached Warsaw, where without recovering perished in hospital.
cause of death
extermination
perpetrators
Russians
sites and events
Forced exileClick to display the description, Moscow (Lefortovo)Click to display the description, Moscow (Lubyanka)Click to display the description, Trial of 21‐25.03.1923Click to display the description, Sankt Petersburg (Kresty)Click to display the description
date and place
of birth
17.04.1861
Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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parents
MALECKI Joseph
🞲 ?, Spitrėnaitoday: Utena eld., Utena dist., Utena Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2022.06.29] — 🕆 ?, ?
SUCHARZEWSKA Vladislava
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
17.05.1884
Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC pro–cathedral churchmore on
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[access: 2020.11.01]
positions held
1926 – 1935
titular bishop — Dionysiana RC diocese — appointment: on 12.08.1926; ordination: on 13.08.1926, Notre Dame de France (Eng. Our Lady of Lourdes) church in Sankt Petersburg
1926 – 1934
apostolic administrator — Sankt Petersburg RC Apostolic Administration — appointment: on 12.08.1926; resignation: on 28.04.1934
from 1925
parish priest — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ St Catherine of Alexandria the Virgin and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31] RC deanery — in 1925‐1930, after being released from prison, celebrated several Masses a day in various places in Sankt Petersburg; in 10.1926 attempted to organize a clandestine theological seminary, which was however broken up by the criminal Russian GPU in 01.1927; in 1928 organized another seminary for two candidates, which was however discovered by the GPU in 05.1930 — the seminarians were arrested and sentenced by the Russians; nevertheless, on 03.12.1928 ordained two seminarians from Ukraine as priests, but the Russians arrested them after half a year and sent them to Russian slave labour concentration camps, i.e. the emerging Gulag system; on 09.02.1929 ordained Fr Theophilus Matulonis as bishop
1921 – 1923
rector — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ clandestine Theological Seminary — lectures given in Fr Anthony Wasilewski's apartment, among others; the seminary was active till 1925
1918 – 1923
parish priest — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC church — initially a chapel, the only one that remained open after the others were closed by the Bolsheviks, and was raised to the rank of a parish church of the newly established parish; also: frequent trips around the Sankt Petersburg and Pskov governorates, to local Catholics deprived of regular pastoral care, as well as to Moscow
from 01.1918
vicar general — Mogilev RC archdiocese — for the area of the Sankt Petersburg and Pskov governorates; designated in the event of the arrest of the bishops of the archdiocese by the Bolshevik authorities, who in 10.1917carried out a bloody coup in Russia, with the support of Germany
from 1916
Prelate‐cantor (Lat. praelati‐cantorus) — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC pro–cathedral church
05.1895 – 1918
vicar — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ St Catherine of Alexandria the Virgin and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31] RC deanery — also: administrator of Immaculate Heart of Blessed Virgin Mary chapel; from 08.1895 guardian of a shelter for small children; 1895 founder of a Polish school for small children; 1902 founder of a sanatorium, i.e. the summer resort „Władysławówka” in Luga, 150 km south of Sankt Petersburg; 1908 founder of the „Private Roman Catholic School for Children of Polish Nationality”; 1908 founder of the „St Anthony Conference” to provide material assistance to the poor population of the Peski district of Sankt Petersburg; 1915 founder of the „Orphan's Nest” agricultural school in Belye Strugi, c. 230 km to the south east of Sankt Petersburg, for less talented pupils; in 11.1918 the Russian Bolshevik authorities nationalized — i.e. robbed — all the works he ran
1888 – 1894
vicar — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ St Stanislav the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31] RC deanery — also: 20.03.1889 founder of a Catholic orphanage, i.e. a shelter, for boys in the Kolomna district, legalized by the Polish Roman Catholic Charitable Society on 31.12.1890, and in 1896 moved to the Piaski district
1885 – 1886
vicar — Minsktoday: Minsk city reg., Belarus
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[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Minsktoday: Minsk city reg., Belarus
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[access: 2020.07.31] RC deanery
1884 – 1885
vicar — Vitebsktoday: Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2023.01.18] ⋄ St Anthony RC parish ⋄ Vitebsktoday: Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2023.01.18] RC deanery
1879 – 1884
student — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31] ⋄ philosophy and theology, Metropolitan Theological Seminary
sites and events
descriptions
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])
Moscow (Lefortovo): Prison in Moscow where Russians held many political prisoners. During big purge of 1936‐1938 used for interrogations and torture. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.22])
Moscow (Lubyanka): Location of a murderous Russian Cheka and next GPU and NKVD (later MVD and KGB) organisations and a prison (in the basement, with 118 cells — in 1936 — of which 94 were solitary — altogether at any time up to 350 prisoners were held there and c. 2,857 in 1937) in Moscow at Lubyanka Square where Russians interrogated and murdered many political prisoners. Most of the prisoners after investigations were transferred to other Moscov prisons, e.g. Butyrki. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.31])
Trial of 21‐25.03.1923: Show trial against abp John Cieplakow, 14 Catholic priest and one lay Catholic held on 21‐25.03.1923 in Moscow accused of „participation in a counter‐revolutionary organization aiming at counter‐acting the decree on the separation of the church from the state”, of „incitement to rebellion by superstition”. The Russian prosecutor thundered: „Any movement directed against the Soviet government is counter‐revolutionary and must be punished as such. For belonging to an organization whose essence I have explained, all defendants deserve the highest penalty”. And lo‐and‐behold abp Cieplak and Fr Budkiewicz were sentence to death, the others got from 6 months to 10 years of prison or slave labour. Fr Budkiewicz was murdered in prison. Abp Cieplak’s sentence was subsequently reduced to 10 months of slave labour and he was exchanged for Russian spies in Poland among whom was Bolesław Bierut, future first Russian governor in Commie‐Nazi Poland, conquered in 1945 by Russia. Most of the other accused were exchanged for Russian spies as well and went to Poland. At least five however did not return from prisons, concentration camps and exile, among them Fr Leonidas Fiodorov, first Greek‐Catholic exarch in Russia, who in 2001 was beatified by pope St John Paul II. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.22])
Sankt Petersburg (Kresty): Russian prison in Sankt Petersburg where many Polish priests were kept captive. Many of them were also murdered there. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20])
sources
personal:
pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20], biographies.library.nd.eduClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20], krzysztofpozarski.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2025.08.19], katolicy1844.republika.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19], www.polskipetersburg.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.11.18], pbc.biaman.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2025.08.19]
bibliographical:
„Fate of the Catholic clergy in USSR 1917‐1939. Martyrology”, Roman Dzwonkowski, SAC, ed. Science Society KUL, 2003, Lublin
original images:
www.sosnowiecfakty.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.22], pl.catholicmartyrs.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.22], www.polskipetersburg.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.11.18], www.krzysztof-pozarski.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.04.16], www.krzysztof-pozarski.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.04.16], pbc.biaman.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.05.30], www.polskipetersburg.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.11.18], gloria.tvClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.04.16], www.polskipetersburg.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.11.18], pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09], pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09], wycieczki-petersburg.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.22], ipn.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.02.02]
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