Abstract

The article deals with the fate of Fr. Grzegorz Kurylas, who was a chaplain in the armed forces of the Second Republic and the head of the military Orthodox chaplaincy in the Polish Army both in the Soviet Union and in the East during World War II. Fr. Kurylas certainly was an interesting personality and one of the most complex people in the history of the Orthodox military chaplaincy in the discussed period. Although he has always been very controversial among his contemporaries, his life and work are little explored. Based on the archival sources from Poland and Great Britain, the Author discusses the successive stages of his pastoral ministry in the army. His life’s path as a soldier and priest is presented against the background of the political events that took place in the country at that time.