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
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