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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.
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.
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 has hosted services led by Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and all Poland. It was also visited by Patriarch Peter of Alexandria and all Africa in 2001, as well as a delegation from the Greek Orthodox Church led by Metropolitan Eusebius of Samos and Ikaria in the same year. [12]
In 1938, the church celebrated the 950th anniversary of the baptism of Rus. Until 1951, St. Nicholas was an ordinary parish church. On September 7, 1951, the Council of Bishops of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church founded the diocese of Białystok-Gdańsk and designated St. Nicholas as its cathedral.
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.
Ultimately, the church was reopened as an Orthodox parish in 1923. It was assigned to the Włodawa Deanery of the Diocese of Warsaw and Chełm and was one of eight active Orthodox churches in Włodawa County. [3] During the interwar period, approximately 150 people – half of the village's Orthodox population – attended services regularly. [1]
The first record of a church in Narojki dates back to 1629 and is an inventory of the temple's property. [2] Although the building was located within the Uniate Eparchy of Volodymyr–Brest, which had been part of the Uniate Church since its inception, it was most likely originally built as an Orthodox church and, at the time of the inventory, effectively remained under that denomination.