Nikolaev K. N. Legal position of the Holy Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Poland (1927).

Warsaw 1927, Synodal Typography, pp. 40, form. 16 x 24, text in Orthodox Slavonic (?), booklet binding, uncut piece.

In 1915, Archbishop Nikolai, Metropolitan of Warsaw and Vistula, evacuated deep into Russia with thousands of faithful. Moscow Patriarch Tikhon in 1918 appointed Archbishop Seraphim of Tver as the vacant cathedral, whom the Polish authorities rejected because of his Russian citizenship. The authorities of the now independent Poland did not want 4 million Orthodox believers to be subordinated to a foreign hierarchy based in a hostile country gripped by Bolshevik revolution. "Independence of the Orthodox Church" was also demanded by Chief Józef Piłsudski. It was decided that the Polish Orthodox Church would break ties with the Russian Orthodox Church and be organized as an autocephalous Church. After many years of negotiations with the Russian Orthodox Church, the relevant canonical act was signed on November 13, 1924. Thomos on the autocephaly of the Polish Church was announced in Warsaw on September 17, 1925. It was recognized by all other autocephalous Churches. It was not accepted by the Russian Church.