Sawa (Hrycuniak)


Metropolitan Sawa, is the Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All Poland, and hence the Primate of the Polish Orthodox Church since 1998, the second largest organized religion in Poland. Sawa was a longtime associate of communist Służba Bezpieczeństwa actively working under name of TW Jurek during which he denounced church members to the communist authorities and obtained their help in advancing his career within the Church. Because of his russophilic views, many churchgoers and clergy of Polish Orthodox Church consider his primate as illegitimate. He is also a professor of theology. Previously, he was a bishop of Białystok and Gdańsk and Łódź and Poznań.