His parents Wincenty and Aniela Okoń were peasants who resided in the town of Radomyśl, which at the time was located in the Austro-Hungarian Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.

[3] Between 1906-1916 Okoń was transferred between eight different parishes,[4] including Świlcza from where his removal in 1911 caused protests amongst the local peasantry,[5] before being defrocked in 1918 in response to his political activities.

At a rally in Tarnobrzeg on 6 November, alongside fellow revolutionary Tomasz Dąbal, Okoń delivered a fiery speech under the statue of Wojciech Bartosz Głowacki to a crowd of 30,000 in which he declared that a day of liberation, freedom and reckoning had dawned.

[13] In the early 1920s Okoń began to successfully campaign for his Radical Peasant Party among the ethnic Kurpie under the slogan Nienawiść do panów (Hatred of Lords).

As a result of his activities Okoń drew the ire of local politicians such as Adam Chętnik, and was regularly slandered in the press being accused of Bolshevism, while his movement was compared to the Mariavites.

[15] In 1948 Okoń was sent to administer to a parish in Olszany, however plagued by ill health and the stress of unfounded court cases against him he committed suicide on 19 January 1949.