His Eminence '''Simon (Romańczuk)''', Archbishop of Łódź and Poznań.

== Life ==
Born on [[12 October]] 1936, in Gusczewina near Hajnówka.
In 1955 he started studying philology in Minsk, from 1965 he was studying on Christian Theological Academy (ChAT) in Warsaw.
He was [[tonsure | tonsured]] on [[11 february]] 1970, [[15 February]] he was [[ordination|ordained]] to the [[diaconate]] and [[22 february]] he was ordained to the priest.
On [[21 February]] 1970 he was assigned as an inspector to the Orthodox Spiritual Seminary in Warsaw. One year later, he took office of president of the Publishing and Press Committee of Metropolitan Council. Since 1971, as a representative of [[Church of Poland]] or as a member of official delegation, he took part in many conferences.
In 1973 he was elevated to [[Igumen]], in 1979 to [[Archimandrite]]. In october październiku 1979 he got title of Honorary Member of the Orthodox Academy in Crete. In Christian Theological Academy (ChAT) in Warsaw he received Ph.D. fot the topic: Orthodox in literary output of Dostojevsky.

On [[26 November]] 1979 at the [[Cathedral]] of [[Cathedral of Mary Magdalen Equal to the Apostles (Warsaw)|Mary Magdalen Equal to the Apostles]] was [[consecration of a bishop|consecrated]] to the episcopacy, with the title of Lublin, as a vicar diocese Warsaw and Bielsk. On [[18 sierpnia]] 1981 he was nominated as a head of Lodz-Poznan diocese. On [[8 czerwca]] 1993 In 1987, Bp Siomon was elevated to [[Archbishop]].

He is a lecturer of University of Łódź and a member of Science Board edited in Łódź lexicon ''Idaes in Russia''.

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2010-05-01T11:23:48Z

Dymitr Andrejuk:

His Beatitude '''Sawa (Hrycuniak)''', [[Archbishop]] of Warsaw and [[Metropolitan]] of All Poland, is the current head of the [[autocephalous]] [[Church of Poland]]. He is the eighth [[hierarch]] to head the Polish [[church]] since it was granted autocephaly by the [[Patriarch of Constantinople]] in 1924. As Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All Poland, his residence is in Warsaw at the [[Cathedral]] of [[Cathedral of Mary Magdalen Equal to the Apostles (Warsaw)|Mary Magdalen Equal to the Apostles]].

==Biography==
Born on [[April 15]], 1938, in Sniatycze (near Zamosc), Michal Hrycuniak completed a spiritual [[seminary]] and then enrolled in a Master of Arts in Theological Studies in 1957, graduating in 1961.

Michal began lecturing at the Orthodox Spiritual Seminary in Warsaw in 1961, and since 1962 he lectured at the Christian Theological Academy (ChAT), something he has continued to do to this day. In 1964, Michal was [[ordination|ordained]] to the [[diaconate]]. In 1966, Dcn Michal received his Ph.D. in Theology from the Orthodox Theologic Faculty of the University of Belgrade, after which he was [[tonsure]]d with the name ''Sawa''. In the same year, [[hierodeacon|Hdcn]] Sawa was ordained to the [[priest]]hood and was made director of the office of the Metropolitan of Warsaw. Fr Sawa was elevated to [[archimandrite]] in 1970, and was named prior of St Onufry [[Monastery]], Jableczna.

On the basis of his qualifying thesis, Archim. Sawa became a reader of Orthodox dogmatic theology, and received a Ph.D. in Orthodox dogmatic theology. He was also appointed to the Chair of Dogmatic and Moral Theology at the Christian Theological Academy. In 1979, Archim. Sawa stopped lecturing at the Orthodox Spiritual Seminary in Warsaw. In the same year, Archim. Sawa was [[consecration of a bishop|consecrated]] to the episcopacy as head of the Lodz-Poznan [[diocese]]. In 1981, he was transferred to the Bialystok-Gdansk diocese. In 1987, Bp Sawa was elevated to [[Archbishop]].

In 1990, the president of the Republic of Poland nominated Abp Sawa to be a professor of theology; since March of that year, he has held the Orthodox Theology Chair at the University of Bialystok. In 1994, having formed the Orthodox Ordinariate of the Polish Army, under the blessing of the Holy Synod, he was nominated by the Minister of National Defence as the Elder of Orthodox Ordinariate of the Polish Army, entitled a Field Bishop. In 1996, he was made a brigadier-general.

In 1998, he ceased his role in the Polish army. In January, due to an illness suffered by Metropolian [[Bazyli (Doroszkiewicz), Metropolitan of Warsaw|Bazyli]], the [[Holy Synod]] made Archbishop Sawa the [[Locum Tenens]] of the Metropolitan throne. On [[May 12]], 1998, the Holy Synod unanimously elected Archbishop Sawa as Archbishop of Warsaw, Metropolitan of All Poland. The [[enthronement]] took place on [[May 31]], 1998.

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years=1981-1990|
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title= Elder of Orthodox Ordinariate (Field Bishop) of the Polish Army|
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years=1998-present|
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==External links==
*[http://www.bialystok.telbank.pl/Orthodox/en/sawa.htm Biography] at the [http://www.bialystok.telbank.pl/Orthodox/en/info.htm Orthodoxy in Poland] website
*[http://orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/resources/hierarchs/poland/current.htm#sawa_metr_poland Listing] at the Orthodox Research Institute

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