Jan Martyniak

Who is Jan Martyniak?

Jan Martyniak became the archbishop and Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Przemyśl – Warszawa in Poland on its establishment on 24 May 1996 and was previously archbishop of the Eparchy of Przemyśl, recreated after the fall of communism in 1991.

Born in Spasie near Stary Sambor a farming family Vasyl and Maria Zygmunts. Baptism and Confirmation received 24 June 1939 in the Greek Catholic church in Terszowie. Years were spent in a family Spasie, where the religious life of the inhabitants of dominant influence was the famous monastery of St. Onofrio Basilian Fathers in nearby Ławrowie. Father of the future Metropolitan drafted during World War II the Soviet Army, was killed in a German POW camp near Dresden.

In 1946, along with his mother and brothers forced to leave their homeland in the deportation action. Family settled in a village in the district of New Waliszów bystrzyckim in Lower Silesia. He completed his primary education in 1954, then High School in Bystrica, obtaining a matriculation certificate in 1958.