Bolesław Pylak (20 August 1921 – 6 June 2019)
was a Polish
prelate
A prelate () is a high-ranking member of the Minister (Christianity), Christian clergy who is an Ordinary (church officer), ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin , the past participle of , which me ...
of the
Roman Catholic Church
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. He was one of the oldest
Roman Catholic bishop
In the Catholic Church, a bishop is an Holy orders in the Catholic Church, ordained Minister (Catholic Church), minister who holds the fullness of the Sacraments of the Catholic Church, sacrament of holy orders and is responsible for teachin ...
s in Poland. Pylak was born in Łopiennik Górny, Poland and was ordained a priest on 29 June 1948 from
Archdiocese of Lublin. Pylak was appointed Auxiliary bishop of the Lublin diocese as well as Titular bishop of Midica on 14 March 1966, and ordained a bishop on 29 May 1966. Pylak was appointed bishop of the
Diocese of Lublin on 27 June 1975 and served in that capacity (becoming Archbishop
in 1992 when Lublin became an Archdiocese) until his retirement on 14 June 1997.
See also
*
Archdiocese of Lublin
References
External links
Catholic-HierarchyLublin Archdiocese
(Polish)
20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Poland
1921 births
2019 deaths
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