The Holy See accepts as valid the ordinations of the Old Catholics in communion with Utrecht, as well as the Polish National Catholic Church ( which received its orders directly from Utrecht, and was — until recently — part of that communion ); but Roman Catholicism does not recognise the orders of any group whose teaching is at variance with what they consider the core tenets of Christianity ; this is the case even though the clergy of the Independent Catholic groups may use the proper ordination ritual.

According to the Polish Kabbalist, " the legend was known to several persons, thus allowing us to speculate that the legend had indeed circulated for some time before it was committed to writing and, consequently, we may assume that its origins are to be traced to the generation immediately following the death of R. Eliyahu, if not earlier.

The city's Latin name may be given as either Gedania, Gedanum or Dantiscum ; the variety of Latin names reflects the mixed influence of the city's Polish, German and Kashubian heritage.

Mieszko's baptism of 966, seen as a defining moment in the establishment of the Polish state, may have taken place in Poznań.

Likewise, it is disputed whether Kashubian may be regarded as a dialect of Polish or a separate language.

Polish () may refer to:

The constitution's acceptance, and the possible long-term consequences it may have had, is arguably the reason for which the powers of Austria-Hungary, Russia and Prussia then decided to partition the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ; thus putting an end to over 300 years of Polish parliamentary continuity.

He may have attended lectures at the Jagiellonian University at that time, including those of the famous Polish mathematician Stanisław Zaremba ( mathematician ), but little is known of that period of his life.

Ways to celebrate holidays may be passed down as traditions, as in this Polish Christmas meal and decorations

* It may come from the Polish word tor, which means " track ( of the Vistula river )".

* It may have been originally Tarnowo, based on the Polish word tarnina, a kind of river plant.

It is believed that recently discovered remains of a double tomb in Poznań cathedral may be the burial places of the first two Polish Rulers: Boleslaw I and his father Mieszko.

Henry IV received a careful education, which may explain his subsequent interest in culture and poetry ( there are reasonable suspicions that the Duke wrote some poems in old Polish ).

The decision may not have improved Władysław's relations with the Order, but it served to introduce closer ties between Lithuania and Poland, enabling the Polish church to freely assist its Lithuanian counterpart.

Some other traditions ( e. g., Polish heraldry ) are less restrictive — allowing, for example, all members of a dynastic house or family to use the same arms, although one or more elements may be reserved to the head of the house.

Because of this Polish Prince Bolesław III was preparing a massive penal expedition that may have spoiled all the earlier accomplishments of missionary work by Bishop Otto.

The American Indian four winds teachings may also have Christian cross teachings linked to Nestorian Missons or visitors to North America, as well as Irish Church monks and / or a Polish / Dane Colony before Columbus in the present location of the Maritimes of Canada and Northeastern U. S. Source: National Christian Association: nationalchristianassociation. bravehost. com

Location names, or habitation names, may be as generic as " Gorski " ( Polish for " hill ") or " Pitt " ( variant of " pit "), but may also refer to specific locations.

Slavic names in Pomeranian — Stolpsk, Stôłpsk, Słëpsk, Słëpskò, Stôłp — and Polish — Słupsk — may be etymologically related to the words słup (" pile ") and stołp (" keep ").

From the Constitution of Poland, Article 52 ( 5 ): " Anyone whose Polish origin has been confirmed in accordance with statute may settle permanently in Poland.

This office may have been involved as a test project office for the Lockheed U-2, with whom Fort Walton Beach resident, World War II exile Polish pilot, and CIA officer, Ksawery Wyrożemski was involved.

In 1938, he denounced the Munich Agreement at several rallies and may have written several leaders in the Manchester Guardian criticising the Munich Agreement ; later, he would compare the smaller number of Czechoslovak dead with the number of Polish dead.

* Slovincian, extinct since the early 20th century, a language formerly spoken in parts of Pomerania, sometimes identified with Kashubian as a single Pomeranian language ( which may also be considered a dialect of Polish );

In European languages other than English the corresponding words for " sect ", such as secte ( French ), secta ( Spanish ), seita ( Portuguese ), sekta ( Polish, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Serbian ), sekt ( Danish, Estonian, Norwegian, Swedish ), sekte ( Dutch ), Sekte ( German ) or szekta ( Hungarian ), are used sometimes to refer to a harmful religious or political sect, similar to how English-speakers popularly use the word " cult ".

The inhabitants of Warsaw still commonly use nicknames to refer to the palace, notably Pekin ( Beijing in Polish, because of its abbreviated name PKiN ( Pałac Kultury i Nauki ), Pajac (" clown ", a word that sounds close to Pałac ), Stalin's syringe, the Elephant in Lacy Underwear, or even the Russian Wedding Cake.

In Polish, the word jankes can refer to any US citizen, has little pejorative connotation if at all, and its use is somewhat obscure ( it is mainly used to translate the English word Yankee in a less formal context, e. g. in a movie about the American Civil War ).

Both town names refer to the Biała River, stemming from biel or biała, which means " white " in Polish.

The term ' lace ' is used by the British to refer to the gold bands sewn onto the sleeves of naval officers ' uniforms to indicate rank, and to name the similar decoration elsewhere on other uniforms ( such as Italian caps and Polish collars ) because of the procedure used to make it.

" Use of the term to refer to events in 1918-19 in Polish cities including Kielce, Pinsk and Lwów was specifically avoided in the 1919 Morgenthau Report ( preferring " excesses "), whose authors argued that the term pogrom was inapplicable to the conditions existing in a war zone and required the situation to be antisemitic in nature rather than political, and media use of the term pogrom to refer to the 1991 Crown Heights riot caused public controversy.

Zouk means " party " or " festival " in the local Antillean Creole of French, although the word originally referred to, and is still used to refer to, a popular dance, based on the Polish dance, the mazurka, that was introduced to the French Caribbean in the 19th Century.

The term " Polonia " is usually used in Poland to refer to people of Polish origin who live outside Polish borders, officially estimated at around 10 to 20 million.

The term Middle or Central Pomerania can refer to two distinct areas, depending on whether it is used as a translation of the corresponding German or Polish terms Mittelpommern ( also Mittelpommerscher Keil ) or Pomorze Środkowe, respectively.

The Polish Livonia may refer to:

Red Ruthenia ( Latin: Ruthenia Rubra or Russia Rubra,, Polish: Ruś Czerwona, Ruś Halicka, ) is a historic term used since medieval times to refer to the area known today rather as Eastern Galicia or Western Ukraine ; first mentioned in Polish historic chronicles in the 1321, as Ruthenia Rubra or Ruthenian Voivodeship ( 1366-1772 ).

In the 1921 constitution the Senate was established as the upper house of the Polish parliament, which from then on was to be known as the ' National Assembly ', with the previously overarching term ' Sejm ' being used to refer only to the lower house of parliament.

Pilsudski or Piłsudski most commonly refer to Józef Piłsudski, Polish politician, military leader, marshal, Chief of State.

Borsuk ( the Polish word for " badger ") may refer to:

Mazurkiewicz is a Polish surname, it may refer to:

Lemko speech includes some patterns matching those of the surrounding Polish and Slovak languages, leading some to refer to it as a transitional dialect between Polish and Slovak ( some even consider the dialect in Eastern Slovakia to be a dialect of the Slovak language ).

Ziółkowski ( feminine Ziółkowska ) is a Polish surname, and may refer to:

Polish 3rd Infantry Division can refer to several formations of that name: