Zygmunt Józef Pawłowicz (November 18, 1927 – March 18, 2010) was the
Polish
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Auxiliary bishop
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of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gdańsk
The Archdiocese of Gdańsk () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Poland. The diocese's episcopal see is Gdańsk.
According to the church statistics Sunday mass attendance was 38.1% in 2013 maki ...
from 1985 until 2005. He was also ordained the
titular bishop
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By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...
of
Tamallula in 1985.
Born in the
Free City of Danzig
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, Pawłowicz was ordained a
Catholic priest
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on September 20, 1952. He died on March 18, 2010, at the age of 82.
External links
Catholic Hierarchy: Bishop Zygmunt Józef Pawłowicz †
1927 births
2010 deaths
Polish Roman Catholic titular bishops
Clergy from Gdańsk
People from the Free City of Danzig
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