Adam Stefan Sapieha
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Adam Stefan Stanisław Bonfatiusz Józef Cardinal Sapieha [ saˈpʲjɛha / saˈpʲjɛxa ] (born May 14, 1867 in Krasiczyn , † July 23, 1951 in Cracow ) was an Archbishop of Cracow from the Sapieha family .
Life
Sapieha was born as the youngest of seven children of Prince Adam Stanisław Sapieha-Kodenski and his wife Jadwiga Klementyna Princess Sanguszkowa -Lubartowicz. He studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and was on 1 October 1893 by the then Bishop of Krakow , January Cardinal Puzyna de Kozelsk , for priests ordained . He taught in the seminary of the diocese of Lviv , of which he became regens in 1898.
On November 24, 1911, he was appointed Bishop of Cracow and consecrated by Pope Pius X on December 17 of the same year ; Co-consecrators were the then Curia Archbishop Augusto Silj and Bishop Agostino Zampini OSA . In 1925 Kraków was made an archbishopric and Sapieha became the first Kraków archbishop.
In the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of Austria-Hungary , as Bishop of Kraków, he had a virile vote in the Galician Landtag .
During the German occupation of Poland in World War II , Sapieha could only continue to run the Kraków seminary in secret. He housed the seminarians, including Karol Wojtyła , who later became Pope John Paul II, in his bishop's palace, where they could continue their training.
On February 16, 1946 he was created cardinal and assigned to him as a cardinal priest in the titular church of Santa Maria Nuova . In the same year Sapieha Karol ordained Wojtyła as a priest in the chapel of his palace .
Sapieha died in 1951 and is buried in the Bishops' Crypt of Kraków Cathedral on Wawel Castle Hill .
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Sapieha-Kodeński, Leo Fürst . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 28th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1874, p. 232 ( digital copy ). (Mention)
Web links
- Entry on Adam Stefan Sapieha on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Newspaper article about Adam Stefan Sapieha in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Jan Cardinal Puzyna de Kosielsko |
Archbishop of Krakow 1911–1951 |
Eugeniusz Baziak |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sapieha, Adam Stefan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sapieha, Adam Stefan Stanisław Bonfatiusz Józef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish clergyman, Archbishop of Cracow and Cardinal of the Roman Church |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krasiczyn , Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 1951 |
| Place of death | Krakow , Poland |