„Kuria biskupia” w Bydgoszczy i Żołędowie

Abstrakt

During the period of the Polish People’s Republic, “religious underground” or at least “religious margins” were active in the country. The communist authorities, who were kept captive by the constitutional right of “freedom of conscience,” were not able to directly repress participants of this phenomenon. They were not able to eliminate it, since these participants included people who were particularly stimulated religiously, nearly fanatics, abiding by no legal, social or moral rules. Many of them treated religious activity as a “way of life” and a source of income. Homosexuals and bisexuals accounted for a significant percentage of them. A clear personality of the religious underground in the Polish People’s Republic was the Rev. Ignacy Wysoczański (1901-1975), who in 1948-1951 established “Bishop’s curia” in Żołędowo and Bydgoszcz. His personality was shaped at the religious-cultural borderland of the Second Republic of Poland. He was a Greek Catholic Boyko, who due to mental aberration was active in the “free” Old Catholic Church, in which no intellectual and moral requirements were imposed upon the clergy.