Status and Prospects for Research on Relations of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church with Polish Civilian and Military Administration, in Connection with The Situation Before and During Polish September Campaign of 1939

The main objective of the paper is to present the status and prospects of research on relations of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church (PAOC) with Polish civilian and military administrations, in connection with the situation just before and during the Polish September Military Campaign of 1939. Such a topic has not yet been a subject to a comprehensive scientific project, both in Poland and abroad. The main reason of such a situation is that the history of this Orthodox Church itself, in the XX Century, has not still been thoroughly and deeply examined. Some historians touched upon a number of issues and only on the margins of the general research of the Orthodox Church in the interwar period and during WWII. Therefore, most of available publications on the topic refer to foreign authors. It is mostly due to the fact that most of the Polish citizens of the Orthodox religion had also been representatives of ethnic minorities in the pre-war Poland.