Edmund Nowicki
Edmund Nowicki (born September 13, 1900 in Trzemeszno , † March 10, 1971 in Warsaw ) was coadjutor and bishop of Danzig .
Life
After graduating from high school in Trzemeszno Nowicki visited the Poznan seminary and was on 15 March 1924 in Gniezno for priests ordained . From 1927 to 1930 he studied canon law in Rome and obtained a theological doctorate . He then worked in the Vicariate General and at the Episcopal Office in Poznan. During the Second World War he was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp .
After the death of the Wroclaw Archbishop Adolf Cardinal Bertram Edmund Nowicki was born on 15 August 1945 the Polish Primate , August Cardinal Hlond , of the Diocese of Breslau without papal authorization to the three administrative districts Wroclaw , Opole and Gorzow Wielkopolski had split, to apostolic administrator of Gorzow Wielkopolski appointed whose jurisdiction is to the east of the Oder located in Brandenburg region of the Archdiocese of Wroclaw referred that for 1992 the diocese Zielona Gora-Gorzow belongs. In addition, he became the administrator of the parts of the Diocese of Berlin east of the Oder , from which the Diocese of Stettin-Cammin , which was raised twenty years later to an archbishopric , was established in 1972 , as well as the Prelature Schneidemühl .
On January 26, 1951, the administrators in the former German dioceses were forbidden from further administration by the communist rulers and in their place were appointed capitular vicars by the state. On April 26, 1951, Pope Pius XII appointed Edmund Nowicki as titular bishop of Adriane and coadjutor sedi datus of Danzig. The episcopal ordination, which was carried out in secret on September 26, 1954 in the chapel of the Poznan bishop's residence, had to be kept secret until 1956. On December 1, 1956, he was appointed titular bishop of Thugga . After the temporary political liberalization of Poland, Edmund Nowicki was finally able to officially take up the office of auxiliary bishop and coadjutor of Danzig on December 8, 1956 . In this position he took part in the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965 .
After the death of Bishop Carl Maria Splett , who had not been allowed to exercise his office since 1945, Edmund Nowicki was appointed Bishop of Gdansk in 1964. He did not live to see the reorganization of the dioceses initiated by the Holy See in 1972 . He was buried in the Gdańsk Cathedral .
literature
- Józef Pater: The resettlement of Lower Silesia in the context of the re-establishment of the diocese of Breslau from 1945 to 1951 . In: Cultures in Encounter. Collegium Pontes, Wrocław · Görlitz 2004, ISBN 83-7432-018-4
- Stefan Samerski (ed.): The diocese of Danzig in life pictures . LIT Verlag Münster-Hamburg-London 2003, ISBN 3-8258-6284-4
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
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Carl Maria Splett (Diocesan Bishop) Andrzej Wronka (administrator until 1951) |
Bishop of Danzig 1964–1971 from 1951 (took office in 1956) already coadjutor |
Lech Kaczmarek |
| - to the Archdiocese of Wroclaw |
Administrator of the Archdiocese of Wroclaw, Landsberg a. d. W. 1945-1951 |
T. Zaluczowski |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Nowicki, Edmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish bishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trzemeszno, Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 1971 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |