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Sergei Spytetsky was born on July 12, 1877 in Berdyansk, Zaporizhia Oblast, now Ukraine. In 1904, he was ordained as a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church, and also served as a priest in the Orthodox Diocese of Pinsk. In March 1924, Spytetsky converted to the Catholic Church under the tutorship of Henrik Pshezdzetskim, who was then Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Siedlce.