Ernst Sabila

Ernst (Ernest) Sabila (Belarusian: Эрнст Сабіла or Эрнэст Сабіла, 18 March 1932 – 5 February 2022) was a Belarusian Protestant religious leader, dissident and Gulag survivor.

Biography

Born in the village of Dziehciarouka (now part of Minsk District), SSR Belarus, USSR, he studied at the Minsk Medical Institute.[1]

In 1951, while still a student, he was arrested by Soviet authorities and accused of religious and nationalist propaganda. He was sentenced to death.[2]

In 1964, after 13 years in a Gulag labour camp, Ernst Sabila was released and returned to religious activism in Belarus. From the moment of his release, he was under constant surveillance of the KGB.[2]

In 1988, he became presbyter of the Evangelian church of Belarus. In 1989, pastor Sabila took part in the founding conference of the Belarusian Popular Front.[3]

From the late 2000s until his death, Sabila was among the members of the revived Belarusian Christian Democracy. He died on 5 February 2022, at the age of 89.[4]

References

  1. ^ http://spadchyna.net/rodnamova/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=251&Itemid=269 Пастар Сабіла Эрнст Канстанцінавіч
  2. ^ a b Віншаванні з днём народзінаў Эрнста Сабілы
  3. ^ Да Каваленкі дапусцілі пастара Сабілу
  4. ^ Памёр пратэстанцкі пастар, былы савецкі дысыдэнт Эрнст Сабіла (in Belarusian)


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