Stanislaw Kostka Łukomski (21 October 1874 – 4 November 1948) was a leading
Polish
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bishop
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and right-wing political activist. He died in suspicious circumstances shortly after
World War II
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He was born in the village of in Sadki parish of the
Archdiocese of Gniezno
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Cardinal
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Edmund Dalbor
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in 1926, he managed the Archdiocese as Vicar Capitular for a short time. On 29 December 1921, he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the
Order of Polonia Restituta
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On June 24, 1926, was made
bishop
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of the
Diocese of Łomża
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History
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, where he coordinated the work of the diocesan Catholic Action group and contributed to the expansion of the
cathedral
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. 1926 also saw him serve as secretary of the Polish Episcopal Conference. He resigned from this role in 1936, but his resignation was not adopted until May 1946.
Known for his extreme right-wing political views, Łukomski sympathized with the National Democratic Party and was a strong opponent of
Jozef Pilsudski
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. In 1922, he condemned the general agriculture strike in
Wielkopolska
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, which was one of the reasons for its failure. In 1947, he wrote a letter to the
Communist
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authorities and condemned murders in Zawady (including the governor) by the "underground army national" militia.
In 1948, Łukomski became the most serious candidate for the office of the
Archbishop of Gniezno
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This is a list of archbishops of the Archdiocese of Gniezno, who are simultaneously primates of Poland since 1418.August Hlond
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. He remained a staunch opponent of the newly ascendent
communist
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authorities. On October 28, 1948, he died in an unexplained car accident on the Ostrów Wielkopolski–Łomża road, which some believe to have been an assassination.
He was buried on November 4, 1948, in Łomża Cathedral.K. Sychowicz. Opponents of the people's power. The Archbishop. Romuald Jałbrzykowski and Bishop. Stanislaus Kostka Lukomski . "Bulletin of the Institute of National Remembrance." 12 (59), pp. 64, December 2005. ISSN 1641-9561 .