Miron Chodakowski
Miron | |
|---|---|
| Archbishop of Hajnówka | |
| Church | Polish Orthodox Church |
| Diocese | Warsaw-Bielsk |
| In office | 2008 – 2010 |
| Other post(s) | Orthodox Ordinary of the Polish Army (1998–2010) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Mirosław Chodakowski 21 October 1957 |
| Died | 10 April 2010 (aged 52) near Smolensk, Russia |
| Buried | Supraśl Orthodox Monastery |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Denomination | Eastern Orthodox Christianity |
Archbishop Miron (Secular name: Mirosław Chodakowski, b. 21 October 1957 – d. 10 April 2010) was an Archbishop in the Polish Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Ordinary of the Polish Army.
Chodakowski was born in Białystok. He entered the Orthodox Seminary of the Holy Spirit in Warsaw in 1972. He gained holy orders on 17 December 1978. Later, he studied at the Christian Theological Academy in Warsaw.
He became the Polish Army's chief Orthodox priest on 1 October 1998. He received the gold Order of Merit for the Defence of the Country on 5 February 1999. He was conferred the rank of General Brigadier of the Polish Army by president Aleksander Kwaśniewski and was posthumously promoted to the rank of Major General by Bronisław Komorowski.
He died in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash on 10 April 2010, with the Polish President and other Polish dignitaries. They were travelling to take part in the commemorations for the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre. Chodakowski was posthumously appointed a Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
In 2017, it was revealed that when the Polish state reopened the investigation into the crash and exhumed victim's bodies, testing revealed that Chodakowski's coffin contained his body from the waist up and the body of general Tadeusz Ploski from the waist down.[1]
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