Antoni Naumczyk

Antoni Naumczyk (* 1925 in Nashua , USA ; † April 2, 1969 in Zawoja ) was a Polish Catholic priest , lecturer in the Polish Catholic Church and vicar general .

Life

Memorial sign on Mount Polica for the victims of the 1969 crash

Naumczyk was born to a Polish family in the USA and moved with his parents to Postawy in Poland when he was four . After attending school and obtaining university entrance qualification in Vilnius , he entered the community of missionary priests at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow . He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1950 . Since then, he taught as a professor of exegesis at the Theological Institute of missionary priests. In 1953, he also defended his doctoral thesis at this university . When it became known in 1957 that he was non- celibate , he gave up the clergy. He was also said to have stolen valuable documents from the Stradom monastery library . With the support of the State Office for Faith, he became a priest in the Polish Catholic Church in 1958. As such, he found a position as an adjunct at the Christian Theological Academy in Warsaw . In 1960 he was appointed lecturer there. In 1966 he became professor of practical theology at the Old Catholic section of the academy. From 1960 to 1965 he was also the administrator of the Warsaw Diocese of the Polish Catholic Church. In 1965 he was one of the initiators of a group that deposed the head of the Polish Catholic Church, Maksimilian Rode . When he was proposed as the successor for this office, he turned down this offer and instead sat down in favor of Julian Pękala as the new head. He was satisfied with the title of Infulate and Vicar General of the Polish Catholic Church.

From 1965 he served in the function of Council Secretary and as a member of the Presidium in the Council of the Polish Catholic Church in the VR Poland. In the years 1965–1969 he was considered a " gray eminence ".

Naumczyk has been a member of the Christian Peace Conference since its inception .

Antoni Naumczyk died together with his family in an air accident ( LOT flight 165 ).

Web links

• Short biography on the website of the Polish Catholic Church, accessed on February 25, 2019 (Polish)