Greek Catholic military pastoral care in the face of World War II

Abstract

Annotation. The military chaplaincy of the Greek Catholic denomination also played its role during the times of the Military Ordinariate of the Polish Army during World War II. Thanks to the presence of Greek Catholic soldiers in the Polish Army in the interwar period, the service of chaplains in the organizational structures of the Military Ordinariate of the Polish Army also provided pastoral service. Through subsequent entries in state and church legal acts, the tasks of Greek Catholic chaplains were created. The time of World War II also showed his pastoral fate, starting from the autumn campaign, through his fate in Soviet and German prisoner of war camps, to service in the Polish Armed Forces in the West and the structures of the Home Army.