Józef Wesołowski

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Józef Wesołowski (born July 15, 1948 in Nowy Targ , Poland , † August 27, 2015 in Vatican City ) was a Roman Catholic Archbishop and a diplomat of the Holy See until 2013 . On June 27, 2014, he was transferred to the laity on child abuse charges . He appealed this decision, which had not yet been decided at the time of his death.

Life

Józef Wesołowski received the sacrament of ordination for the Archdiocese of Krakow on May 21, 1972 . He was ordained a priest by the then Archbishop of Cracow, Karol Wojtyła .

On November 3, 1999, the now Pope John Paul II appointed him titular Archbishop of Slebte and appointed him Apostolic Nuncio in Bolivia . The episcopal ordination donated him on 6 January 2000, John Paul II., Co-consecrators were the Offizial in the Vatican Secretariat of State , Curia Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re , and the secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples , Archbishop Curia Marcello Zago OMI . On February 16, 2002, Józef Wesołowski became Apostolic Nuncio in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan . John Paul II also appointed him on July 6, 2002 as Apostolic Nuncio in Kyrgyzstan and on November 6 in addition to that of Uzbekistan . On January 24th, 2008 by Benedict XVI. appointed, he served in the Dominican Republic and as Apostolic Delegate in Puerto Rico .

On August 28, 2015, Józef Wesołowski died at the age of 67, according to the results of the autopsy of cardiac arrest. Further forensic examinations revealed that he died of natural causes, the Vatican announced in December 2015.

Child abuse allegation

On August 21, 2013, Wesołowski was removed from office by Pope Francis on charges of child abuse . According to reports in the Dominican media, the diplomat is said to have paid seven underage boys for sexual acts. As a citizen of the Vatican, he should be tried in a Vatican court; he could face up to ten years in prison. June 12, 2015 was set as the start of negotiations. In the canonical process on June 27, 2014 , the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith recognized in the first instance that the clergy had been lost and transferred him to the laity . Wesołowski appealed against this decision, which was originally supposed to be decided in October 2014.

After a first hearing in September 2014, Wesołowski was initially not detained by a criminal court of the Vatican State for health reasons, but instead placed under house arrest on September 23, 2014 after there was a risk of escape. According to the Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi, the order was made personally by Pope Francis . Shortly thereafter, it became known that Wesołowski had collected more than 100,000 child pornographic files on his computer. On December 3, 2014, there was a meeting of the Attorney General of the Dominican Republic, Francisco Domínguez Brito, with the promoter Iustitiae at the Court of Justice of the Vatican State, Gian Piero Milano, at which the status of the investigation was discussed. Wesołowski's house arrest was relaxed at this point, but the obligation to stay in the Vatican remained.

The trial, for which the defendant did not appear, opened on July 11, 2015 and was suspended for an indefinite period a few minutes later due to Wesołowski's illness.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicole Winfield: Jozef Wesolowski, archbishop accused of child sexual abuse, dead at 67. CBCnews, August 28, 2015, accessed on August 28, 2015 (English).
  2. ^ A b Autopsy on Wesolowski: Cardiac arrest as the cause of death. Vatican Radio, August 29, 2015, accessed on August 29, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b Dichiarazione del Direttore della Sala Stampa della Santa Sede, P. Federico Lombardi. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , August 25, 2014, accessed August 26, 2014 (Italian, with English translation).
  4. ^ Nomina del Nunzio Apostolico in Kazakhstan e in Tadjikistan. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, February 16, 2002, accessed February 25, 2015 (Italian).
  5. ^ Nomina del Nunzio Apostolico in Uzbekistan. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, November 6, 2002, accessed February 25, 2015 (Italian).
  6. ^ Nomina del Nunzio Apostolico nella Repubblica Dominicana e Delegato Apostolico in Porto Rico. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, January 24, 2008, accessed February 25, 2015 (Italian).
  7. ^ Archbishop Wesolowski died of natural causes. Vatican Radio, December 18, 2015, accessed December 19, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Vatican places ex-archbishop under house arrest , Süddeutsche.de of September 24, 2014
  9. ↑ For Nuncio Accused of Abuse, Dominicans Want Justice at Home, Not Abroad , nytimes.com, August 23, 2014
  10. ^ Taz: allegations of abuse in the Vatican
  11. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Abuse scandal shakes Catholic. Church in Poland
  12. ↑ Sexual abuse: Vatican brings former papal ambassador to justice. Spiegel Online, June 15, 2015, accessed on the same day
  13. ↑ Comunicato. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, June 27, 2014, accessed June 27, 2014 (Italian).
  14. ↑ Allegation of child abuse: Vatican places former archbishop under house arrest , Spiegel Online from 23 September 2014
  15. ^ Vatican arrests former archbishop , Zeit Online from 23 September 2014
  16. ↑ Andrea Dernbach: Archbishop collected 100,000 child porn , Tagesspiegel from September 26, 2014
  17. ↑ Dichiarazione del Direttore della Sala Stampa, P. Federico Lombardi, SI, December 3, 2014. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, December 3, 2014, accessed January 8, 2015 (Italian).
  18. ↑ Abuse trial against ex-Vatican ambassadors postponed . kath.net from July 12, 2015
predecessor Office successor
Rino Passigato Apostolic Nuncio in Bolivia
1999–2002 		Ivo Scapolo
Marian Oleś Apostolic Nuncio in Kazakhstan
2002–2008 		Miguel Maury Buendía
Marian Oleś Apostolic Nuncio in Tajikistan
2002–2008 		Miguel Maury Buendía
Marian Oleś Apostolic Nuncio in Kyrgyzstan
2002–2008 		Miguel Maury Buendía
Marian Oleś Apostolic Nuncio in Uzbekistan
2002–2008 		Antonio Mennini
Timothy Paul Andrew Broglio Apostolic Nuncio in the Dominican Republic
2008–2014 		Jude Thaddeus Okolo
personal data
SURNAME Wesołowski, Józef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish clergyman, diplomat of the Holy See, Roman Catholic archbishop
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Nowy Targ , Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 2015
Place of death Vatican city