Tadeusz Gocłowski, C.M. (16 September 1931 – 3 May 2016) was a

Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...

archbishop. Ordained to the priesthood in 1956, Gocłowski served as auxiliary bishop of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gdańsk The Archdiocese of Gdańsk ( la, Gedanen(sis)) is an archdiocese located in the city of Gdańsk in Poland. According to the church statistics Sunday mass attendance was 38.1% in 2013 making it lower than the Polish average of weekly mass attenda ...

, Poland, from 1983 to 1984. Then he served as bishop of the diocese from 1984 to 1992. In 1992, Gocłowski was elevated to archbishop serving until 2008.Archdiocese of Gdańsk
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Kashubian language Kashubian or Cassubian (Kashubian: ', pl, język kaszubski) is a West Slavic language belonging to the Lechitic subgroup along with Polish and Silesian.Stephen Barbour, Cathie Carmichael, ''Language and Nationalism in Europe'', Oxford Univers ...

in liturgy.

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* 1931 births 2016 deaths 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Poland Bishops of Gdańsk Kashubian clergy Polish people of Kashubian descent 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Poland {{Poland-RC-bishop-stub