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The Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Polish: Polski Autokefaliczny Kościół Prawosławny), commonly known as the Polish Orthodox Church, or Orthodox Church of Poland, is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches in full communion.
Cathedral of St. Mary Magdalene in Warsaw is the main Polish Orthodox Church. Cathedrals of the Polish Orthodox Church: Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Białystok [2] Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky in Łódź [3] Cathedral of the Transfiguration in Lublin [4] Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Sanok [5] Cathedral of St. Mary Magdalene in Warsaw [6]
The Church of the Acheiropoietos in Rogawka is an Orthodox parish church that belongs to the Siemiatycze Deanery of the Diocese of Warsaw and Bielsk of the Polish Orthodox Church. The church was constructed in the 1850s at the initiative of Szymon Szum, a resident of Rogawka, on the site of an older church that had existed since at least 1646.
During the Second Republic, the cathedral became one of two free-standing Orthodox churches in Warsaw, which were not destroyed or adapted for other purposes. It is the main Polish Orthodox Church. The cathedral is also the cathedral for the Diocese of Warsaw-Bielsk. It was entered into the register of monuments on July 1, 1965 with No. 741.
Polish Orthodox churches (1 C, 18 P) W. Wooden tserkvas of Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine (13 P) Pages in category "Eastern Orthodox churches in Poland"
The church was consecrated on 29 May 1884 by Archbishop Leontius the ordinary of Warsaw and Chełm Dioceses. [2] The orthodox church was designed and built in the Neo-Byzantine style in an octagonal shape. Stained glass windows and iconostasis, made from oak wood, with three doors are the main decorations of the church.
Today, the upper section of the church is dedicated to the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women, [7] while the lower crypt is dedicated to Prophet Elijah. [8] After Poland regained independence in 1918, the Orthodox community lost many of the churches it had used during the period of Russian rule due to a nationwide repossession campaign. [9]
The Orthodox church was founded as a private effort by the Archbishop of Warsaw Hieronymus within the cemetery in Wola. It was built to act as an auxiliary to St. Lawrence's Church, which had been confiscated from the Catholics after the November Uprising, but its immediate purpose was to commemorate the deceased son of the archbishop, Ivan Ilyich Ekzemplarskii.