Antoni Baraniak

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Archbishop Baraniak (1976)

Antoni Baraniak (born January 1, 1904 in Sebastianowo ; died August 13, 1977 in Poznan ) was Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Poznan . Previously he was secretary of the Primate of Poland August Cardinal Hlond SDB and Stefan Wyszyński , then Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Gniezno .

Life

Baraniak was born in a Polish village in the province of Poznan . He attended elementary school and, from 1917, a high school run by the Salesians of Don Bosco in Auschwitz . In 1920 Baraniak entered the Salesian novitiate and took religious vows on July 28, 1921 . He then studied philosophy in Krakow . On August 3, 1930, he was the archbishop of Krakow, Adam Stefan Sapieha , for priests ordained.

In 1939, Fathers Hlond and Baraniak went to Rome to denounce German aggression against Poland under the protection of the Holy See . They had to leave Rome in 1940 under German pressure. Until 1943 they found refuge from the Germans in Lourdes , which was in the non-occupied part of France ( zone libre ). There, however, Father Baraniak was tracked down by the Gestapo , but managed to avoid arrest. After the occupation of all of France, Hlond and Baraniak were housed in the Hautecombe Abbey , where Baraniak stayed until 1945, while Cardinal Hlond was interned in Germany in 1944. After the war Baraniak was called to act as secretary and chaplain to Archbishop Wyszyńskis .

Bishop Baraniak before 1953

On April 26, 1951, Father Baraniak was appointed auxiliary bishop in Gniezno with the titular bishopric of Theodosiopolis in Armenia , a lost bishopric in what is now Erzurum . On July 8, 1951, he was ordained bishop by Archbishop Wyszyński . On May 30, 1957, the Holy See appointed him Archbishop of Poznan. He held this office until his death.

From September 1953 to 1956, Bishops Baraniak and Wyszyński were imprisoned in Mokotów because the communist regime in “ People's Poland ” wanted to counteract a strengthening Roman Catholic Church. Here the bishop was ill-treated and subjected to several interrogations during the 27 months of his imprisonment. This torture had physical consequences, and he has since suffered from stomach and kidney problems.

In 1962 Baraniak took part in the Second Vatican Council in Rome with 15 other Polish bishops . Baraniak then expressed his displeasure with the reforms adopted there. He felt that these could be more likely to cause confusion among believers. In 1965 he signed the appeal of the Polish bishops to their German colleagues for reconciliation . The letter was written on the occasion of the millennium of the Christianization of Poland in 1966 and called for us to forget the unfortunate past in German-Polish history and not to continue the Cold War , but to start a dialogue.

Grave site in the crypt of St. Peter and Paul Cathedral

Archbishop Baraniak died of cancer and was buried in the crypt of St. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Poznan. The then Archbishop of Cracow, Karol Józef Wojtyła, who later became Pope John Paul II, was present at his funeral .

Fonts (selection)

  • List pasterski. Poznan 1957, OCLC 864857592 . (Pastoral letter from 1957)
  • Calendarium simplex et perpetuum: secundum declarata Concilii Vaticani II: memoriale scriptum: Commissionum Sedis Apostolicae discussioni propositum. Pontificium Collegium Polonorum, Rome 1965, OCLC 66295603 .
  • O właściwe miejsce zakonów w Kościele i świecie współczesnym. Poznan 1969, OCLC 830160962 .
  • with Alfred Kotlarski and others: Bóg naszym Ojcem. Księgarnia św [iętego] Wojciecha, Poznan 1978, OCLC 830340136 .

literature

  • Ludwik Bielerzewski: W służbie kościoła poznańskiego. Kksięga pamiątkowa na 70-lecie urodzin Arcybiskupa Metropolity dr Antoniego Baraniaka . Księgarnia św. Wojciecha, Posen 1974, OCLC 169990743 .
  • Metropolicie Poznańskiemu Ksied̨zu arcybiskupowi Dr Antoniemu Baraniakowi na 25-lecie sakry biskupiej. Instytut wydawniczy "Nasza Przeszłość", Cracow 1976, OCLC 691652791 . (Writing on the 25th anniversary of his episcopal ordination)
  • Marian Przykucki: Arcybiskup Antoni Baraniak. Bohater Kościoła i Ojczyzny (= Zeszyty Spotkań KIK-owskich w Hamburgu. 4.) Księgarnia św. Wojciecha, Posen 2003, ISBN 83-7015-653-3 .
  • Zygmunt Zieliński: Z więzienia na stolicę arcybiskupią. Arcybiskup Antoni Baraniak, 1904–1977. Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, Poznan 2010, ISBN 978-83-7177-779-0 .

Web links

Commons : Antoni Baraniak  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lucyna Żbikowska: Wierny towarzysz w cierpieniu - Ksiądz arcybiskup Antoni Baraniak. In: Naszym Dzienniku. Issue 88 (2801) from April 14/15, 2007. Accessed April 22, 2015. (Polish).
  2. ↑ Gniezno ( Memento from January 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on apostolische-nachstieg.de.
  3. ^ Antoni Baraniak. ( Memento from August 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on apostolische-nachstieg.de.
  4. ↑ a b Entry on Antoni Baraniak on catholic-hierarchy.org .
  5. ↑ Pierre Blet: Pie XII et la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Librairie académique Perrin, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-262-01324-1 , p. 50. ( de.scribd.com , French).
  6. ↑ Newspaper article: Thousands Of Poles Lament Barring Of Pope. In: The Milwaukee Sentinel. dated May 4, 1966 (English, news.google.com ).
  7. ^ Antoni Baraniak. Biskup niezłomny. In: Hej-kto-Polak. Retrieved March 30, 2018 (Polish).
  8. ↑ Ilse Dorothee Pautsch, Mechthild Lindemann, Michael Mayer: files on the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 1: 1962. R. Oldenbourg, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-59192-7 , p. 449.
  9. ^ Brian Porter-Szücs: Faith and Fatherland. Oxford University Press, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-539905-9 (English, thedivineconspiracy.org PDF, pp. 50/51).
  10. ↑ Pastoral letter from the Polish bishops to their German colleagues from November 18, 1965 and the answer from the German bishops of December 5, 1965. ( berlin.msz.gov.pl ).
  11. ↑ Sesja naukowa "Arcybiskup Antoni Baraniak w służbie kościoła i Ojczyzny" oraz otwarcie wystawy "Da mihi animas, caetera great. Arcybiskup Antoni Baraniak 1904–1977 ". (Polish, ipn.gov.pl ).
predecessor Office successor
Walenty Dymek Archbishop of Poznan
1957–1977 		Jerzy Stroba
personal data
SURNAME Baraniak, Antoni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baraniak, Anthony; Baraniak, Antonius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish clergyman, Archbishop of Poznan
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Sebastianowo , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1977
Place of death Poses