Tadeusz Rybak (October 7, 1929 – March 7, 2017) was a Polish

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bishop. He served as the first Bishop of the

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between 1992 and 2002; he was also titular bishop of Benepota between 1977 and 1992. Ordained to the priesthood in 1953, Rybak served as auxiliary bishop of the

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from 1977 to 1992; he then served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Legnica from 1992 to 2002. He was also

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of the

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of Benepota, having been appointed on 28 April 1977. Following the attempted assassination of John Paul II in 1981, Tadeusz would ordain a class of

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seminarians on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the S.D.S. in the town of

Trzebnica Trzebnica (Polish pronunciation: ; german: Trebnitz, cs, Třebnice, szl, Trzebńica) is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship in west-central Poland. It is the seat of Trzebnica County, and of the smaller administrative district (gmina) called Gm ...

. Tadeusz died on 7 March 2017. He is buried at the Cathedral of Saint Apostles Peter and Paul in Legnica.

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