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Jerzy Popiełuszko

Polish Roman Catholic priest and martyr (1947–1984)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Jerzy Aleksander Popiełuszko was a Polish Roman Catholic priest who became associated with the opposition Solidarity trade union in communist Poland. He was murdered in 1984 by three agents of the Security Service, who were shortly thereafter tried and convicted of the murder.

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“Jerzy Popiełuszko” enters the record as polish Roman Catholic priest and martyr (1947–1984). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jerzy, Popiełuszko and Polish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jerzy Popiełuszko” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.