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Jan Urban (born January 23, 1874 in Brok near Płock, died September 27, 1940 in Kraków) - Polish Jesuit, promoter of the Neouniate church (Catholic Church of the Byzantine-Slavic rite).

Biography
He studied philosophy and theology at the Płock Theological Seminary. In 1899 he joined the Jesuit Order. In 1905 he was assigned to the Kraków publishing house Apostolstwo Modlitwy. Participant of a secret mission among the former Uniates in Podlasie (1902–1903). In the years 1907–1910, he stayed in Russia. He was the initiator of the preparation for Catholics in Russia: prayer books, brochures and magazines. During World War I, he was a professor of theology in Widnawa, Gräfenberg and Czechowice. From 1918 to 1933, editor-in-chief of the Polish Jesuit publishing house Przegląd Powszechny.

He published numerous books on civil and church affairs, as well as church history. His 1923 historical study of the affair of Makrina Mieczyslavska (the Greek Catholic nun who was accepted and honored as a martyr in Paris and Rome in 1845-1846) attracted particular attention. In his book, Makrina Mieczyslavska in The Light of Truth, Urban analyzes her narrative and concludes that it is a falsification. The story and Makrina and Urban's analysis of it are retold in the 2015 novel Matka Matryna by Jacek Dehnel.

Participant of congresses and conventions concerning the church union. In 1935, he founded and co-edited the Neouniate magazines: K'Sojedinieniju and Da Złuczennia.

Outside Links

 * Jan Urban Publications in Polona library