Z Wilna do Białegostoku. Początki Seminarium Duchownego w Białymstoku z siedzibą przy ul. Słonimskiej 8

Abstract

Seminary in Bialystok was founded 8 May 1945. It was expelled from Vilnius by the decision of communist regime of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania. Priests professors and alumni of Vilnius University in the so-called repatriation left Vilnius and moved to Bialystok. Father Al. Moscicki and father J. Krassowski by the authority of the archbishop Romuald Jalbrzykowski Metropolitan of Vilnius, with the dean of Bialystok, father Alexander Chodyka, rented from the Congregation of the Servants of Mary Immaculate premises at 8 Slonimska Street, wherein they arranged Seminary. Faculty of Theology of Stefan Batory University, whose professors also left Vilnius, resumed activity that day. Most of the lecturers of Vilnius Alma Mater moved to Torun, where they founded the Nicolaus Copernicus University, but professors of the Faculty of Theology who were also the lecturers of the Seminary remained in Bialystok. The Seminary at the Slonimska Street functioned until 1961 when the political authorities nationalized the building and gave it to the Education Supervision Body. The seminar had to leave the premises and search new premises for its operations. The seminar life was focused around the Church. Of St. Wojciech, which became a temple of the seminar.