Andrzej Józef Śliwiński (January 6, 1939 September 9, 2009) was the first
bishop of the Polish
Roman Catholic Diocese of Elbląg
The Diocese of Elbląg ( la, Elbingen(sis)) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese located in the city of Elbląg in Poland. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Warmia.
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. The diocese was established on March 25, 1992.
Biography
Śliwiński was born in
Werblinia
Werblinia is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Puck, within Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Puck and north-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.
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, Poland, in 1939. He was ordained a
Catholic priest on December 17, 1961.
Andrzej Śliwiński became the first Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Elbląg upon its creation on March 25, 1992. He remained the head of the diocese until August 2, 2003, and was succeeded by Elbląg's second bishop,
Jan Styrna.
Bishop Andrzej Śliwiński died on September 8, 2009, in
Elbląg
Elbląg (; german: Elbing, Old Prussian: ''Elbings'') is a city in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland, located in the eastern edge of the Żuławy region with 117,390 inhabitants, as of December 2021. It is the capital of Elbląg County.
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Poland, at the age of 70.
References
Catholic Hierarchy: Bishop Andrzej Józef Sliwinski
1939 births
2009 deaths
21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Poland
People from Elbląg
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Poland
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