Józef Drzazga

Józef Drzazga (born July 4, 1914 in Wolica Pierwsza , † September 12, 1978 in Olsztyn ) was a Polish clergyman and Roman Catholic bishop of Warmia .

Life

After graduating from the higher seminary in Lublin, he went to the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome for a year in 1938 . On October 3, 1938, he received the sacrament of ordination . During the Second World War he worked as a vicar in Hrubieszów and as a chaplain of the Polish Home Army . In 1950 he received his doctorate , from 1954 to 1958 he taught at the Catholic University of Lublin . On May 5, 1958 he was by Pope Pius XII. appointed titular bishop of Sinidado and auxiliary bishop in Gniezno . The episcopal ordination received his Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski on 31 August 1958 in Olsztyn . Co- consecrators were the Apostolic Administrator of Warmia, Tomasz Wilczyński , and the Bishop of Lublin , Piotr Kałwa .

Bishop Drzazga attended the second, third and fourth sessions of the Second Vatican Council as the Council Father.

In 1965 he was appointed vicar capitular of the Diocese of Warmia, and on May 25, 1967, he was appointed Apostolic Administrator and Auxiliary Bishop in Warmia. In the course of the new church regulation after the extensive recognition of the Oder-Neisse border as the border between Germany and Poland , he was appointed on June 28, 1972 as the first Polish diocesan bishop of Warmia since the end of the Second World War.

Web links

• Entry on Józef Drzazga on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on July 14, 2016.

predecessor	Office	successor
Maximilian Kaller	Bishop of Warmia 1972–1978	Józef Glemp