The Polish website Cerkiew reports today that February 5, 2010 marked the fifth anniversary of the first Orthodox Liturgy held in the Polish language in Warsaw. Fr. Henryk Paprocki, who is the parish priest of the Orthodox Pastoral Point of St. Gregory Peradze in Warsaw, said at the beginning Liturgies in Polish were held on Saturdays, once a month in one of the chapels in Warsaw.
In March 2006, Metropolitan Sawa, the head of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church, blessed to move to the Polish-Catholic chapel. Since that time, Orthodox Liturgies are held regularly every Sunday.
Other Orthodox services -- including Great Lent, vespers, matins, vigils, 12 great feasts, and sacraments -- are now celebrated fully in Polish. Also, Sunday School has been organized for children, and Orthodox Christian lectures are often held for adults.
Although the population of Poland is about 97 percent Catholic, the Orthodox Church in Poland has slightly more than a half-million faithful. There are 250 Orthodox parishes in Poland. Most of them use the Slavonic language in their services.
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