Greek and Macedonian refugees from the Greek Civil War were resettled in Zgorzelec in 1949. There were Orthodox clergy among those who had been relocated here, some of whom connected with the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church. One of them, Fr. Tsaldikas, was authorized in 1955 to begin holding Greek language services in Jelenia Góra. The local communist authorities however, would not allow for the creation of a new Orthodox parish in Zgorzelec.