Sawa (Hrycuniak), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Sawa (Hrycuniak)

leader of the Polish Orthodox Church

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1938

Place of Birth: Śniatycze, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland

Profession: priest, monk

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Metropolitan Sawa, (sometimes Sabbas, secular birth name Michal Hrycuniak; born 14 April 1938 in Sniatycze) 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 Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa 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 Bialystok and Gdansk (1981–1998) and Lódz and Poznan (1979–1981).