Tymoteusz Szretter

Tymoteusz Szretter

Metropolitan Tymoteusz ( Jerzy Szretter ; born May 16, 1901 in Tomachów near Równy , † May 20, 1962 in Warsaw ) was a Polish Orthodox theologian , priest , bishop and metropolitan of the Polish Orthodox Church for Warsaw and all of Poland.

Life

Tymoteusz Szretter was actually called Jerzy Szretter (Georgi Iwanowitsch Schrötter, Russian Георгий Иванович Шрёттер ). After attending school in his native Volhynia and obtaining his university entrance qualification , he studied Orthodox theology at Warsaw University , which he graduated in 1930. Then he received his ordination . He served in Volhynia and from 1933 in the military ordinariate . In 1938, after the death of his wife, he took the monk's vows and was ordained bishop on November 27, 1938. He became vicar of the diocese of Warsaw- Chełm and at the same time he was delegated to the diocese of Lublin . The German occupiers interned him during the Second World War . He spent this time in Jabłeczna , as a superior in the monastery of St. Onufry . From June 1945 he administered the parish offices of the Białystok area, and from July 15, 1946 he headed the diocese of Białystok- Bielsko with the rank of archbishop , which was renamed the Białystok-Gdańsk diocese on September 7, 1951 . In the periods between the elections, to determine the succession of heads, he also headed the Orthodox Church in Poland from April 17, 1948 to July 7, 1951 and from December 8, 1959 to May 5, 1961, when he became Metropolitan for Warsaw and all of Poland was elected.

Szretter was a member of the Christian Peace Conference (CFK) and participated as a delegate at its second conference in 1959 in Prague .

Szretter died on May 20, 1962 in Warsaw and was taken to the cemetery in Wola , a district of Warsaw. buried.

literature

• Orthodox Warsaw Metropolis (Ed.): 80 years of autocephaly in old photographs.