Metropolitan Bazyli (secular name: Włodzimierz Doroszkiewicz) (b. 15 March 1914, Cisy, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire - d. 11 February 1998, Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland) was a Polish Orthodox Bishop, the fifth Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland, head of the Polish Orthodox Church from 1970 to his death in 1998. In 1938, he was ordained a presbyter. Until 1960, he conducted pastoral work in various parishes in the Białystok Region and the Grodno region. In December 1959, he made his perpetual vows, taking the name Bazyli. The following year he was ordained Bishop of Bielsko, vic
Metropolitan Bazyli (secular name: Włodzimierz Doroszkiewicz) (b. 15 March 1914, Cisy, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire - d. 11 February 1998, Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland) was a Polish Orthodox Bishop, the fifth Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland, head of the Polish Orthodox Church from 1970 to his death in 1998. In 1938, he was ordained a presbyter. Until 1960, he conducted pastoral work in various parishes in the Białystok Region and the Grodno region. In December 1959, he made his perpetual vows, taking the name Bazyli. The following year he was ordained Bishop of Bielsko, vicar of the Warsaw-Bielsk diocese, where he remained for a year. Then, from 1962 to 1970, he was the bishop of Wrocław and Szczecin. As the Ordinary of that diocese, he contributed to the organization of several dozen new parishes created to meet the needs of those displaced by Operation "Wisła". In 1970, he assumed the office of Metropolitan of Warsaw and all Poland. During his term as head of Polish Orthodox Church, there was a significant revival of contacts with other local Orthodox Churches, as well as the opening of four monasteries and the establishment of two new dioceses and the Orthodox Ordinariate of…
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Education and priesthood He was born in the small village of Cisy, baptized in the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord in Narew, in the then Hajnówka County, into a peasant family of Aleksy and Maria Doroszkiewicz, as one of six children. He studied at the theological seminary in Vilnius from 1927 to 1936, where he also obtained his high school graduation examination. After graduating from the seminary, he applied for the admission to study at the Center for Orthodox Theology at the University of Warsaw. His candidacy was rejected because he declared Belarusian nationality in the survey. He then went to Grodno, where Bishop Antoni (Marcenko) sent him to work in the Orthodox parish in Svislach as a psalmist. On 6 September 1937, as a married man, he was ordained a deacon by bishop Sava (Sovetov). The same bishop recommended him to study at the Orthodox Theology School in Warsaw, thanks to whom Włodzimierz Doroszkiewicz was accepted this time. On 17 April 1938, he was ordained a priest. He conducted pastoral ministry in Łyskowo, Gronostawice, Svislach, Michałowo (in the years 1940–1943 as an assistant priest and until 1946 as the rector) and in Gródek. During…
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Episcopacy On 25 March 1960, in the Cathedral of St. Mary Magdalene in Warsaw, he was consecrated a Bishop and was appointed Vicar Bishop of the Warsaw-Bielsk diocese with the title of Bishop of Bielsko. On 5 May 1961, Bishop Bazyli was transferred to the Wrocław-Szczecin diocese. In the new diocese, he significantly contributed to the creation of its cathedral, the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Polish: Sobór Narodzenia Przenajświętszej Bogurodzicy we Wrocławiu). In 1962, based on his work on Catholic Mariology in the first half of the 20th century, he received a master's degree in theology, completing his studies that he began before World War II. In the same year, after the election of Archbishop Timothy (Szretter) as Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland, Bishop Bazyli protested against this decision of the bishops' council as being made contrary to the provisions of the Church's statute (according to him, the local council should choose the superior). In 1962, in a note from the Office for Religious Affairs, bishop Bazyli was described as a "limited" man, with little political experience, associated with the "most devotional" circles of the Church. Four years earlier, the priest had been recruited…
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Death
He died in Warsaw of a stroke. In the last month of his life, when he was in hospital, he was unable to fulfill his duties as metropolitan. The funeral ceremonies took place on 13 February 1998, in the cathedral in Warsaw, in the presence of representatives of the Patriarchate of Constantinople (Metropolitan Jeremia (Kaligiorgis) of Paris) and the Patriarchate of Moscow (Metropolitan Pitirim (Nechayev) of Volokolamsk), representatives of state authorities and other churches operating in Poland. He was buried in the Orthodox cemetery of Warsaw in the Wola district.
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