Represje o charakterze personalnym wymierzone w duchownych Kościoła rzymskokatolickiego w Rzeszowskiem w latach 1944-1968

This article presents the array of methods which was used by communists in order to break the power and decrease the rank and role of Catholic Church in Rzeszów voivodship. Communists did it in special way like attacking directly into individuals-priests (there were personal repressions against them) who shaped the Catholic Church. This is an outline which includes selected forms of repressions, for example: legal case and imprisonment caused by priestly activity, attempt of discrediting as well as the fol-lowing cases: battery, intimidations and blackmail. An outline is based on records which are held in archive of Institute of National Remembrance in Rzeszow (reports, infor-mation, some notes, some studies, dispatches and reports which come from substructures of security apparatus and others materials which are developed by security service (pro-ceedings, investigative dossiers, and different kinds of characteristics etc.) The inquiry carried out in archive of Institute of National Remembrance in Rzeszow complement ma-terials which are held in State Archive in Rzeszow (documents developed by different Religious Departments).