Gerard Bernacki (3 November 1942 – 21 December 2018) was a Polish

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bishop. Bernacki was born in

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

and was ordained to the priesthood in 1967. He served as titular bishop of ''Sala Consilina'' and as auxiliary bishop of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Katowice The Archdiocese of Katowice ( la, Katovicen(sis)) is the Latin Metropolitan archdiocese of an ecclesiastical province in Western Poland. Special churches Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is Archikatedra Chrystusa Króla, dedicated to Christ th ...

, Poland, from 1988 to 2012. Bernacki died on 21 December 2018 in

Prudnik Prudnik (, szl, Prudnik, Prōmnik, german: Neustadt in Oberschlesien, Neustadt an der Prudnik, la, Prudnicium) is a town in southern Poland, located in the southern part of Opole Voivodeship near the border with the Czech Republic. It is the ...

at the age of 76. He was buried in Katowice.

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