Kapelan wojskowy Edward Choma (1889-1940) – ofiara zbrodni katyńskiej
Military Chaplain Edward Choma (1889-1940) – Victim of the Katyn Massacre
Author(s): Witold JarnoSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History, History of Church(es), Modern Age, Recent History (1900 till today), Theology and Religion, 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: priesthood of the Polish Army; military parish in Skierniewice; military parish in Radom; the Polish-Bolshevik war; defense of Lviv in 1918
Summary/Abstract: The article describes the life of priest Edward Choma. He was born in 1889 in Zloczow in Eastern Galicia. In 1913 he was ordained a priest and began pastoral work in the diocese of Lviv. In 1917 he was appointed to the Austrian army, in which he served until October 1918. After returning to Lviv in November 1918, he volunteered for the Polish army. Initially, he was a chaplain in the 38th Infantry Regiment, and then he was a parish priest of the 4th Infantry Division. After the end of the Polish-Bolshevik war he became a chaplain of the military parish in Skierniewice (1921-1930), then a military parish in Słonim (1930-1936) and a military parish in Radom (1936-1939). In September 1939 in more unknown circumstances he got into Soviet captivity and was murdered in the Katyn forest in April 1940.
Journal: Roczniki Humanistyczne
- Issue Year: 66/2018
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 141-160
- Page Count: 20
- Language: Polish