Julius Joseph Dinder (9 March 1830 - 30 May 1890) was a German
Bishop
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of the
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, and Arch
bishop of Poznań
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and
Gniezno
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, and the
Primate of Poland
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East Prussia
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(modern Reszel, Warmia, Poland). He studied
Theology
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Braunsberg
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and was
ordained
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on June 8, 1856. he was a vicar in
Bischofsburg
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, then a pastor in Grieslienen, working among Ermland's / Warmian Catholics, where he learned the
Polish language
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. In 1868, he was made a pastor of the parish in
Königsberg
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in Prussia, ranked
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Primate of Poland
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, who wanted a
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in the role, as part of his Germanisation-politics. Bismarck put pressure on the
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to appoint Dinder.
Pope
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Leo XIII
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, decided not to exacerbate a conflict with the
German Empire
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.
His appointment was opposed by the polish Chancellor and the majority of the clergy.
Career as Primate
Dinder was an appointment of the
German Emperor
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, and supported pro-German policies. However, in 1888 he asked the clergy to abstain from all
political
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statements. Poland that this time was not a state and he encouraged the use of German in schools instead of Polish.
He also appointed several German priests, however in what could be seen as a conciliatory action did appoint Prussian Poles Joseph Cybichowski as vicar-general,
Edward Likowski
Edward Likowski (26 October 1836 – 20 February 1915) was a Polish Catholic hierarch, who served as the archbishop of Gniezno and primate of Poland from 1914 until his death in 1915.
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Likowski was born on 26 September 1836 in Wrzesni ...
as
Bishop of Poznań
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He died in Posen on 30 May 1890. "Kurier Poznański" wrote of him "everything you did, had a sense of Justice and kindness, which indeered him in hearts and minds".M. Kosman: Między ołtarzem a tronem. Poznań: G&P, 2000.