Cardinal Adam Kozłowiecki, S.J., (; 1 April 1911 – 28 September 2007) was

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of the

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in Zambia.

Biography

Born in Huta Komorowska,

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(now part of

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) into a noble family of

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, Kozłowiecki was ordained a

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priest on 24 June 1937 after studying at the

Zakład Naukowo-Wychowawczy Ojców Jezuitów w Chyrowie Jesuit College in Khyriv, formerly Jesuit College in Chyrów (full name: The Educational Academy of the Jesuit Fathers in Chyrów, pl, Zakład Naukowo-Wychowawczy Ojców Jezuitów w Chyrowie, uk, Комплекс споруд Хирівсь� ...

. In 1939 he and 24 confrères were arrested by the

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and sent to

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. Six months later he was transferred to the

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, where he remained until the end of the war. After his release, the Vicar General proposed that Kozłowiecki go to

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, where the Polish Jesuits had a mission. He taught there for several years until being appointed Apostolic Administrator of the new Prefecture of

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in 1950. As the mission grew, he was named Bishop and Vicar Apostolic on 11 September 1955. In 1959 he was appointed the first Metropolitan Archbishop of

. He resigned from the see in 1969 so that an African could be appointed Archbishop. He participated in all the sessions of the

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and in the first Synod of Bishops in 1967, and in the 1994 Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops dedicated to Africa. After his resignation, he continued to serve as a missionary in Zambia. He was a member of the

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from 1970 to 1991. He was created a Cardinal by

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in the consistory of 21 February 1998; he was

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of the ''Titulus S. Andreae in Quirinali''. Because he reached 80 before becoming Cardinal, he was not eligible to participate in the 2005 conclave. He died on 28 September 2007. The Cardinal received many recognitions, among them from

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Lech Kaczyński Lech Aleksander Kaczyński (; 18 June 194910 April 2010) was a Polish politician who served as the city mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 2005, and as President of Poland from 2005 until his death in 2010. Before his tenure as president, he prev ...

on 24 May 2007. The Adam Kozłowiecki Museum and Foundation, "Heart without Borders", was founded in his honor.

References

Sources

* pap, ss: Zmarł kardynał Kozłowiecki (pol.). wprost.pl, 2007-09-28. ostęp 2011-06-20 * Sprawozdanie Dyrekcji Zakładu Naukowo-Wychowawczego OO. Jezuitów w Bąkowicach pod Chyrowem za rok szkolny 1936/37. Przemyśl: 1937, s. 12. * Prezydent RP nadał odznaczenie (pol.). prezydent.pl, 2007-05-24. ostęp 2012-05-12 M.P. z 2007 r. nr 57, poz. 641 * Odznaka Zasłużony dla Województwa Podkarpackiego. bip.podkarpackie.pl. ostęp 2017-12-15 * Honorowi obywatele gminy Majdan Królewski. majdankrolewski.pl. ostęp 2016-07-11 * Radio Watykańskie/a.: Sandomierz: Fundacja kard. Kozłowieckiego (pol.). info.wiara.pl, 2008-03-27. ostęp 2011-06-20 * Odsłonięcie tablicy upamiętniającej Ks. Kardynała Adama Kozłowieckiego (pol.). majdankrolewski.pl, 2008-10-03. ostęp 2010-11-09 * Powstało muzeum im. kard. Kozłowieckiego (pol.). deon.pl, 2011-09-24. ostęp 2017-06-16 archiwizowane z tego adresu (2017-06-16)

Bibliography

Sylwetka w słowniku biograficznym kardynałów Salvadora Mirandy
* Agata i Zbigniew Judyccy, ''Polonia. Słownik biograficzny'', Warszawa 2000 (s. 155–156)

External links

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