Stanisław Szymecki (26 January 1924 – 26 September 2023) was a Polish

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of the

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Biography

Szymecki was born in

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and was ordained a priest on 3 July 1947. Szymecki was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Kielce on 27 March 1981 and consecrated on 12 April 1981. Szymecki was appointed to the Archdiocese of Białystok on 15 May 1993 and retired from the diocese on 16 November 2000. Szymecki died in

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on 26 September 2023, at the age of 99.

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Kielce Diocese
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Białystok Archdiocese
(Polish) 1924 births 2023 deaths 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Poland 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Poland Bishops of Białystok People from Katowice {{Poland-RC-bishop-stub