Bishop Stefan Cichy is a

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emeritus of

Legnica Legnica (Polish: ; german: Liegnitz, szl, Lignica, cz, Lehnice, la, Lignitium) is a city in southwestern Poland, in the central part of Lower Silesia, on the Kaczawa River (left tributary of the Oder) and the Czarna Woda (Kaczawa), Czarna Woda ...

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. He was born on 30 March 1939 in

Przyszowice Przyszowice (German ''Preiswitz'') is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gierałtowice, within Gliwice County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. The village has a population of 3,199. It lies approximately north-east of Gi ...

and was a survivor of the

Przyszowice massacre The Przyszowice massacre ( pl, Zbrodnia przyszowicka or ''tragedia przyszowicka'') was a massacre perpetrated by the Red Army against civilian inhabitants of the Polish village of Przyszowice in Upper Silesia during the period January 26 to January ...

. He was

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on 23 June 1963 and on 12 September 1998 was

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Bishop A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...

. From 26 August 1998 until 19 March 2005 he was Auxiliary Bishop of the

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 ...

and

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of Bonusta in

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. He was Bishop of Legnica from 19 March 2005 until 16 April 2014. In 2013, a water-filled vessel appearing with a red discoloration; this followed a Christmas Day Mass at the Sanctuary of St. Hyacinth where a host fell during the distribution of communion. The priest involved during said Mass reported it to Bishop Cichy, who in 2014 sent a particle of the host to research labs in Wrocław and Szczecin. The results of the labs' investigations were presented to the

Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) is the oldest among the departments of the Roman Curia. Its seat is the Palace of the Holy Office in Rome. It was founded to defend the Catholic Church from heresy and is the body responsible f ...

in 2016, which declared it to be an eucharistic miracle. His motto is "Per Crucem ad Lucem".

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