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In 1946, the Department of Denominations of the Ministry of Public Administration began to suggest to Dionysius, Metropolitan of Warsaw and all Poland, to resign from his office (ultimately, the clergyman was forced to do so). Bishop Timothy was considered as his possible successor. On 14 October 1945, he became one of the vice-presidents of the Polish Ecumenical Council. From 1946, as an archbishop, he led the Białystok-Bielsko diocese, renamed on 7 September 1951, to the Diocese of Białystok and Gdańsk. In 1947, he became the vice-chairman of the Orthodox Metropolitan Committee for Aid to Resettlers in the Recovered Territories, where he engaged in organizing pastoral care and material support for Orthodox Christians who were resettled in these regions of Poland. In the same year, he founded the first female monastery within the post-war borders of Poland – the monastery on Grabarka Holy Mount. In 1948, together with Metropolitan Dionysius, he developed a project for reforming the church's administrative division, which never came into force. In 1948, the communist authorities finally decided to remove Metropolitan Dionysius from office. Until a new primate of the Polish Orthodox Church was elected, the church was to be governed by a body not provided…Citește mai mult

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After the outbreak of World War II, he arrived from the St. Onuphrius Monastery in Jabłeczna, where he had resided, to Warsaw. However, the ruling hierarch of the Diocese of Warsaw and Chełm since November 1939, Metropolitan Seraphim Lade of Berlin and Germany, sent him back to the monastery due to his pro-Polish views. Bishop Timothy returned to active church activities on 30 September 1940, as a member of the council of bishops of the General Government Orthodox Church (the establishment of such a structure was announced by Metropolitan Dionysius at the end of September of the same year). On the same day, he was granted the title of auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Chełm and Podlachia. After the formation of the Church Synod, Bishop Timothy did not join its ranks due to his pre-war pro-Polish stance, which was inconsistent with the policy of Ukrainization of the Polish Orthodox Church. On 10 August 1944, the chairman of the Polish Committee of National Liberation, Edward Osóbka-Morawski, agreed to his temporary administration of the Diocese of Chełm and Podlachia. During his supervision of the aforementioned administration, the deportation of Ukrainians to the USSR took place, leading to the closure of over…Citește mai mult

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After Macarius' departure to the USSR and his death in Odesa in 1961, the state authorities brought about the election of Timothy as metropolitan (since December 1957, he had been again the locum tenens). Delegations from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Romanian Orthodox Church participated in the metropolitan's enthronement. His election was also positively received by the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia. Metropolitan Timothy was elected by the Council of Bishops of the Polish Orthodox Church, not by the Electoral Council as stipulated in the church's statute, leading to protests from the clergy and the faithful. The newly elected metropolitan was accused of assuming the office against canonical law. Allegations of moral nature were also raised against him. Petitions and complaints regarding the circumstances of Timothy's assumption of office, as well as his person and conduct, were sent to the State Council of the Polish People's Republic, the Council of Ministers, the Sejm, the Office for Religious Affairs, and the Patriarch of Moscow. One member of the Council of Bishops of the Polish Orthodox Church, Bishop Bazyli Doroszkiewicz, also protested against the electoral process. He claimed that the appointment to the office had been decided by employees…Citește mai mult

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Bibliography Mironowicz, Antoni (2001). Kościół prawosławny na ziemiach polskich w XIX i XX wieku. Białystok: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku. ISBN 83-7431-046-4. Gerent, Piotr (2007). Prawosławie na Dolnym Śląsku w latach 1945–1989. Toruń: Adam Marszałek. ISBN 978-83-7441-468-5. Urban, Kazimierz (1996). Kościół prawosławny w Polsce 1945–1970. Kraków: Nomos. ISBN 83-85527-35-4. Dudra, Stefan (2010). Metropolita Dionizy (Waledyński) 1876–1960. Warsaw: Warszawska Metropolia Prawosławna. ISBN 978-83-603-11-34-9.

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Timothy, secular name Jerzy Szretter (born May 16, 1901, in Tomachów near Rivne, died May 20, 1962, in Warsaw) was a Polish Orthodox clergyman, the third Metropolitan of Warsaw and all Poland. After graduating from the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Warsaw and ordination to the priesthood, he served in the Volhynian diocese and was a chaplain for Orthodox soldiers in the Polish army. In 1938, he was consecrated as a bishop. During World War II, due to his strong support for the Polonization of the Polish Orthodox Church, expressed during the Second Polish Republic, he stayed in the Monastery of St. Onuphrius in Jabłeczna, without influencing the direction of the church's development. Between 1948 and 1951, and again between December 1959 and May 1961, he temporarily administered the Polish Orthodox Church, which was without a leader at that time. In 1961, he was elected Metropolitan of Warsaw and all Poland with overt support from Polish state authorities, and in violation of the procedures outlined in the Church's Internal Statute, which led to protests from clergy and believers. He died after one year of holding the position.

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Early life He completed high school in Ostroh. From 1925 to 1930, he studied at the Orthodox Theological Seminary of the University of Warsaw. On 11 August 1930, he was ordained to the priesthood at the Pochaiv Lavra and was assigned to the parish in Łanowiec. In December 1933, he was transferred from the pospolite ruszenie to the reserve of military clergy, simultaneously appointed as a reserve chaplain with seniority from 1 January 1934, and ranked 6th among Orthodox military clergy. Subsequently, as a reserve chaplain, he was called to active duty and appointed as the acting dean of the Orthodox district of Corps District No. II in Lublin. In 1938, after the death of his wife Lidia, he took religious vows.

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Bishop On 27 November 1938, at the Pochaiv Lavra, he received episcopal consecration from the hands of Dionysius Waledyński, Metropolitan of Warsaw and all Poland. He was appointed as the vicar of the Diocese of Warsaw and Chełm with the title of Bishop of Lublin. According to Antoni Mironowicz, his consecration took place under pressure from the Polish state authorities, who aimed to Polonize the Polish Orthodox Church, while the majority of the hierarchy and clergy in the church's structures were Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians. However, Jerzy Szretter was positively inclined towards the plans for Polonization of the Orthodox structures in Poland. He undertook activities in this direction within the Diocese of Warsaw and Chełm after his consecration as bishop. Alongside Bishop Matthew Siemaszko and Bishop Sawa Sovietov, he was one of the greatest proponents of Polonization within the clergy of the Polish Orthodox Church.