Ignacy Wysoczański’s efforts to achieve the title of an Old Believer bishop in the middle of the 20th century Cover Image

Starania Ignacego Wysoczańskiego o sakrę biskupa staroprawosławnego w połowie XX wieku
Ignacy Wysoczański’s efforts to achieve the title of an Old Believer bishop in the middle of the 20th century

Author(s): Stefan Pastuszewski
Subject(s): History of Church(es), Politics and religion, Evaluation research
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: Old-Believers; Old Catholic Church; a false bishop;

Summary/Abstract: Dubious Old Catholic bishop Ignacy Wysoczański (1901-1975) in the first decade of the second half of the twentieth century was involved in the relationships between the Moscow Belo-Krinitsa Archiepiscopate and the Belo-Krinitsa Metropolis in Braila. His uncompromising desire to create "his own" Church and the unconventional methods of operation were blocked by the communist authorities. Ignacy Wysoczański nevertheless tried to establish Old-Believers Episcopal ministry in Poland. He "ordained" in the Old-Believer rite two bishops: Andrzej Wacław Ćwikliński and Jakub Jan Antoni Malczewski (1936-1990).

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 85-100
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish