[1] On 28 April (or 23 August [2]), 1924 he made his religious vows in the Pochayiv Lavra in front of Aleksandr, the bishop of Pinsk and Polesia.

[1] On February 8, 1942, he chirotone the Bishop of Brest, vicar of the Pinsk diocese of the non-canon Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.

Then, on April 26, 1948, he was incorporated into the temporary Governing College of the Polish Orthodox Church under the leadership of Archbishop Timothy.

As Bishop Jerzy recalled, the participants of the delegation feared that they would be transported directly from the capital of the USSR to labor camps.

The authorities of the Polish People's Republic, openly interfering with the life of the PAKP, prevented the election of a new head of the Church during this period.

In the publications of the Commonwealth, there was a thesis that the election of Archbishop Jerzy to be the metropolitan of Warsaw and the whole of Poland was blocked by the Security Service[8] According to a journalist of the Republic of Poland, Cezary Gmyz, the archbishop was considered an unsuitable candidate because of his willingness to maintain good relations with the Catholic Church, which was interpreted as "a desire to play the role of the Orthodox Wyszyński", and because of his opposition to the control of the Office for Religious Affairs over the PAKP.

[8] Ryszard Michalak, on the other hand, writes that Archbishop Jerzy did not become a metropolitan, because he tried not to let the Office for Denominations set the directions of the current policy of the Church.

Contrary to his recommendations, he intended to maintain good contacts with the Roman Catholic Church, and to be cool about the Polish Ecumenical Council.

Moreover, the Ministry of the Interior negatively assessed Jerzy's maintaining private contacts with Roman Catholic bishops.

Again, according to the publication of Rzeczpospolita, the authorities of the People's Republic of Poland were to prevent him from being elected the head of the Church; Metropolitan Stefan was succeeded by the bishop of Wrocław and Szczecin, Bazyli.