Piotr Paweł Gołębiowski (10 June 1902 – 2 November 1980) was an

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of the Diocese of Sandomierz.

Biography

Gołębiowski was born in

Jedlińsk Jedlińsk is a village in Radom County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Jedlińsk. It lies in historic Lesser Poland, approximately north of Radom and south of War ...

. In 1919, after completing an exam, he was enrolled into the seminary in

Sandomierz Sandomierz (pronounced: ; la, Sandomiria) is a historic town in south-eastern Poland with 23,863 inhabitants (as of 2017), situated on the Vistula River in the Sandomierz Basin. It has been part of Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (Holy Cross Provi ...

. After graduating, he began studying theology and philosophy at the

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, obtaining a doctorate in philosophy in 1925 and a doctorate in theology in 1928. He was ordained on 12 October 1924 by Paweł Kubicki. In 1929, Gołębiowski was made professor of

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and moral theology at the seminary in Sandomierz; he worked as a professor until 1941. He was appointed auxiliary bishop of Sandomierz and titular bishop of Panium in 1957; he was consecrated on 28 July by

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. On 6 January 1967, he was made

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of the diocese of Sandomierz; he was made apostolic administrator in 1968. Gołębiowski was called to the 4th session of the

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in 1965. In 1980, while celebrating Mass in

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, he passed away; he was buried at the cathedral in Sandomierz.

References

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