Dionizy

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Dionizy 1933
Dionizy 1913

Dionizy (secular name Russian Константин Николаевич Валединский Konstantin Nikolayevich Waledinski * May 4 jul. / 16th May  1876 greg. In Murom , Vladimir province , Russian Empire ; † 15. March 1960 in Warsaw , Polish People's Republic ) was Metropolitan of Polish- Orthodox Church of Warsaw and All Poland.

Life

Waledinski first studied at the theological seminary of Vladimir , but switched to the theological seminary of Ufa in 1895 , which he completed in 1896 as the first student. He then studied at the Kazan Theological Academy, where he graduated in 1900 with the degree of theology candidate and received his doctorate in theology in 1901. In 1897 he was named Dionizy and in 1899 he was consecrated as Hieromonachos .

At the end of 1902 he received the rank of Archimandrite and became rector of the Theological Seminary in Chełm , which he remained until 1911. On February 28, 1913, Dionitsy became Bishop of Kremenets . In 1918 he supported the establishment of an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church and in 1919 he became the incumbent Bishop of Volhynia . In Kiev in 1921 he participated in the All-Ukrainian Council, which founded the non-canonical Ukrainian autocephalous Orthodox Church . On September 4, 1922, he was made archbishop . He was actively involved in founding the Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Poland and was elected Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church in Poland in Warsaw in 1923. As a Polish metropolitan, he promoted the revival of the Ukrainian ecclesiastical traditions and approved the translation of liturgical texts into Ukrainian and their use in the liturgy. The Polish Orthodox Church, which he led, officially received autocephaly from the Patriarch of Constantinople Gregory VII in 1924 . On October 19, 1940 he consecrated the rector of the Ukrainian University Kamianets-Podilskyj and later metropolitan of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, Ivan Ohijenko (Ilarion), as Bishop of Chełm and Podlachia .

During World War II , Dionitsy blessed the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and, by decree of December 24, 1941, appointed Polikarp (Sikorskyj) interim administrator of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church in the Liberated Areas of Ukraine . After the end of the war, the now communist Polish government interned him, denied him the title of metropolitan, and he was excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church . After spending several years under house arrest in Sosnowiec , he was allowed to return to Warsaw in 1958, where he died impoverished at the age of 83. He was buried in the Orthodox cemetery in the Warsaw district of Wola .

In Poland a documentary was released in 2001 on the life of Metropolitan Dionizy under the title Żywot i obywatelstwo .

Web links

Commons : Metropolitan Dionizy of Warsaw and All of Poland  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c biography of Dionizy on zarubezhje.narod.ru ; accessed on January 7, 2019 (Russian)
  2. ↑ a b c d Entry on Valedinsky, Dionisii in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on January 7, 2019
  3. ↑ 20 ROCZNICA URODZIN I 20 ROCZNICA ŚMIERCI METROPOLITY IŁARIONA ARCYPASTERZ CHEŁMSZCZYZNY I PODLASIA ; accessed on January 7, 2019 (Polish)
  4. ↑ Article on Polikarp (Sikorskyj) in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on January 7, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ Biographical film about Dionizy on filmpolski.pl from November 2, 2017 (Polish)
personal data
SURNAME Dionizy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waledinsky, Konstantin Nikolajewitsch (real name); Валединский, Константин Николаевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Metropolitan of the Polish Orthodox Church
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Murom , Vladimir Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1960
Place of death Warsaw , People's Republic of Poland