Aleksander Dubec – prawosławny dziekan i biskup a władze PRL
Aleksander Dubec – An Orthodox Dean and Bishop and the Authorities of the Polish People’s Republic

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the relations between the state and the Orthodox Church using the example of the relations between Rev. Aleksander Dubec, the Dean of Rzeszów and Przemyśl who in 1983 became the Bishop of the Diocese of Przemyśl-Nowy Sącz, and the authorities of the Polish People’s Republic. The author has tried to establish how the state administrative apparatus influenced him in managing the Orthodox Church in South-Eastern Poland, if he sought the government’s support with regards to promotion, how his collaboration with Poland’s Ministry of Public Security proceeded, and how it impacted Dubec’s activity as a dean and bishop. This article makes use of the analytical method. Rev. A. Dubec tried to make use of his loyalty towards the state authorities in order to expand the structures of the Orthodox Church in the Rzeszów region. This approach, however, did not significantly impact the development of the Orthodox Church’s structures in that region, as attested by the secular authorities’ refusal to erect new Orthodox parishes in that region. Such administrative policies, however, were conducive to the development of the Greek-Catholic Church. Rev. Dubec’s collaboration with the Ministry of Public Security was voluntary in nature. During their meetings, he provided officials with information about the Orthodox and Greek-Catholic Churches as well as Ukrainian activists.

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