Ignacy Skorupka

Ignacy Skorupka was a Polish priest, chaplain of the Polish Army. He died during the battle of Warsaw. He became one of the most famous casualties of the battle.

Ignacy Skorupka was born onJuly 1893 in Warsaw. He studied at the seminary in St. Petersburg. In 1916 he took his Holy Orders, and in 1918 he was briefly a parish priest in the Russian Empire. In the chaotic times of the first stages of the PolishSoviet War in 1918, he became one of the Polish regional leaders in the Kresy borderlands. Since the fall of 1918 he practiced his religious profession in d, and from the fall of 1919, in the Polish capital of Warsaw. He has given several sermons in the St. Johns Archcathedral.

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