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– 20 October 2020) was a Polish Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Gniezno from 1988 until 2012.

Biography

He was born on 4 July 1937, in

. He graduated from high school in

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. As priest, he was ordained on 20 May 1961 in Gniezno by

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Stefan Wyszyński, the Primate of Poland. From 1964, he was a specialist in the field of moral theology at the Catholic University of Lublin. There, in 1968, he obtained a master's degree, and in 1972 a doctorate on the basis of a dissertation entitled Deontologia employees of social media according to Inter mirifica. Pope John Paul II appointed him Titular Bishop of

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on 17 November 1993, and Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno. His episcopal consecration was granted by the Archbishop of Warsaw and Gniezno, Cardinal

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and Co-consecrators were the auxiliary bishops in Gniezno,

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and

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. As a motto he chose ''Evangelizare pauperibus''. On 15 September 2012 Pope Benedict XVI accepted his resignation request made for reasons of age. He died from COVID-19 on 20 October 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland.

References

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