Inwigilacja duchowieństwa diecezji sandomierskiej w świetle dokumentu KW MO w Kielcach z dnia 6 października 1961 roku
Surveillance of the Sandomierz diocese clergy in the light of a document of the Kielce Voivodeship Police Headquarters of 6 October 1961
Author(s): Piotr TylecSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History of Church(es), Security and defense, Politics and religion, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
Keywords: Security Service; Sandomierz diocese; surveillance of the clergy; repression of the Church;
Summary/Abstract: This source edition presents a document created by the officers of the Security Service at the Voivodeship Police Headquarters in Kielce in October 1961, containing information on the clergy of the Sandomierz diocese. It was kept as part of a case file entitled “Wisła” (surveillance of the diocesan curia and the seminary in Sandomierz). The document is a typical example of “counter-intelligence features of a case.” In addition, it contains a “directional operational plan of undertakings”. An analysis of the source allows us to determine the scale of surveillance to which the priests of the diocese were subjected. The present edition of the document contains a number of footnotes, which explain the more difficult formulations used by security officers, briefly approximate the figures of the priests named in it and elaborate on the state/Church relations in the Polish People’s Republic.
Journal: Folia Historica Cracoviensia
- Issue Year: 23/2017
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 465-490
- Page Count: 26
- Language: Polish