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Interesting. They forgot about Chopin - it is an interesting stopy about being Polish.
Denomination had a bit of national identity clarification in the past, in places where Poles, Ukrainians and (probably) Belarusians lived and spoke mix of languages or two of them, it was Roman Catholic/ Byzantium Catholic / Orthodox difference that was the most visible.
That is what I were told by my grandma, some other people her age and priests from Roman and Byzantium Catholic Churches.
But being Catholic doesn't mean being Polish, I know some Italians and Spanish that are Catholic.
I would say for me consider other person as fellow Pole it's a mix of ancestry, citizenship, language, cultural/ historical awareness and "feeling Polish". Not all are necessary, but just one is a bit to little.