Jan Martyniak (born on 20 June 1939,
Poland
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) was a former
archbishop and Metropolitan of the
Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Przemyśl–Warsaw in
Poland
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on its establishment on 24 May 1996 and was previously archbishop of the Eparchy of Przemyśl, recreated after the fall of communism in 1991.
Biography
Jan Martyniak was born in Spas near Staryi Sambir Raion from Vasyl and Maria Zygmunts, a farming family. His baptism and Confirmation was received on 24 June 1939 in the Greek Catholic church in Terszowie. Years were spent in a Spas, where the religious life of the inhabitants of dominant influence was the famous monastery of St. Onofriy Basilian Fathers in nearby Ławrowie. The father of the future Metropolitan was drafted during
World War II
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by the
Soviet Army
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and was killed in a German POW camp near Dresden.
In 1946, along with his mother and brothers he was forced to leave their homeland in the deportation action. His family settled in a village in the district of New Waliszów in
Lower Silesia
Lower Silesia ( pl, Dolny Śląsk; cz, Dolní Slezsko; german: Niederschlesien; szl, Dolny Ślōnsk; hsb, Delnja Šleska; dsb, Dolna Šlazyńska; Silesian German: ''Niederschläsing''; la, Silesia Inferior) is the northwestern part of the ...
. He completed his primary education in 1954, then High School in Bystrica, obtaining a matriculation certificate in 1958. Wishing to devote himself to the clerical state, Martyniak studied theology at the Seminary in Wroclaw and graduated in 1964, receiving his priestly ordination by Archbishop Boleslaw Kominek's hands. He worked as a curate in the parish of the Roman Catholic Church of Guardian Angels in Walbrzych (1964). After a year of pastoral work aimed to study in Italy, Polish authorities refused to issue him a passport. In this situation, he began his studies in the field of apologetics at Theological Catholic Academy in Warsaw. Martyniak later deepened their knowledge of the Institute of Primate of the Inner life.
In the years 1969–70 Martyniak was an assistant at the Major Seminary in Wroclaw, and in 1973 he took up lecturing in Gorzow branch of the Catholic Theological Academy. In 1974 he became pastoral outpost of the Greek Catholic Church in Legnica. Soon, he became dean.
On 22 December 1981 Polish Primate
Jozef Glemp gave him the job of vicar general of the faithful of the Byzantine-Ukrainian rite for the Southern Vicariate. On 20 July 1989 Vardimissany appointed titular bishop and auxiliary bishop of the Polish primate, the Ordinary for the faithful of the Eastern rites in Poland by
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
. On 16 September 1989 he was ordained bishop of Jasna Gora.
On 16 January 1991 marked the Ordinary reactivated after 45 years of the Diocese of Przemysl of the Byzantine-Ukrainian rite of the Holy See.
On 31 May 1996 Martyniak was appointed Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Uniate metropolitan formed Przemysl-Warsaw Ukrainian Greek Catholic church by
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
. He was enthroned eparch on the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Przemysl was held on 17 August 1996.
In 2005 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polish Rebirth in 2007 - the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise V Class.
In 2009, the World Union Army of the Volhynia District asked the Archbishops
Stanislaw Dziwisz,
Kazimierz Nycz
Kazimierz Nycz (born 1 February 1950) is a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the Archbishop of Warsaw since 2007. He was Bishop of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg from 2004 to 2007, after serving more than fifteen years as auxiliary bishop ...
and
Jozef Michalik to support the protest against the behavior of John Martyniak and the Greek Catholic Bishop
Włodzimierz Juszczak, accusing them of slander persons as Father
Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski
Tadeusz Bohdan Isakowicz-Zaleski ( hy, Թադևոս Վարդապետ Իսահակյան-Զալեսկի, translit=Tadevos Vartapet Isahakian-Zaleski) is a Polish Roman Catholic and Armenian Catholic priest, author and activist. Born in 1956, in K ...
, falsification of history and the development of proper ground for the rebirth of Ukrainian nationalism.
Notes
1. Указ Президента України № 739/2007 (in Ukrainian). president.gov.ua.
ccess 13 April 2011
2. 27 Division Army Volyn" Information Bulletin, No. 1 (101), January–March 2009, Warsaw, pp. 51–54.
References
External links
* http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/prze1.htm
* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmartyn.html
* http://webmgr.cerkiew.net/page.php?3
* https://web.archive.org/web/20110519075326/http://www.president.gov.ua/documents/6574.html
* https://web.archive.org/web/20100119064335/http://www.apostolische-nachfolge.de/europa_3.htm
* https://web.archive.org/web/20140411073221/http://www.ugcc.org.ua/38.0.html
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Living people
Archbishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
1939 births
Polish people of Ukrainian descent
Bishops in Poland
Polish Eastern Catholics
People from Lwów Voivodeship
Bishops of Przemyśl