Jan Śrutwa

Jan Śrutwa (born December 1, 1940 in Obern-Maidan , today part of Tomaszów Lubelski , Generalgouvernement ) was Bishop of Zamość-Lubaczów (pol: Zamojsko-Lubaczowska) from 1992 to 2006 .

Life

After high school in Tomaszów Lubtrat occurred in January Śrutwa 1958 in the seminary of Lublin one. On May 31, 1964, he received the sacrament of ordination through Piotr Kalwy , the Bishop of Lublin . After a period of vicarage, he began a three-year specialist course in 1969 at the Theological Faculty of the Catholic University of Lublin . For further studies he went to Rome from 1973 to 1975 and did a licentiate in Christian archeology. Back in Poland he became prefect at the seminary in Lublin and from 1976 to 1981 rector of the theological faculty of the University of Lublin.

On July 25, 1984 appointed him Pope John Paul II. To auxiliary bishop in Lublin and titular bishop of Liberalia . He was ordained bishop on September 1, 1984 by the Polish primate , Józef Cardinal Glemp , Archbishop of Warsaw and Gniezno in the Cathedral of Lublin. Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Lublin, Bolesław Pylak , and Piotr Hemperek , auxiliary bishop in Lublin. In the Polish episcopate he was chairman of the committee for church art from 1986 to 1989.

On March 25, 1992, Pope John Paul II appointed him the first bishop of the newly founded diocese of Zamość-Lubaczów.

On May 21, 1997 he became a member of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches (Pontifical Commission for Cultural Heritage).

On August 5, 2006, Jan Śrutwa retired as Bishop of Zamość-Lubaczów.

Web links

• Entry on Jan Śrutwa on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Biography on the website of the Zamość-Lubaczów Diocese (Polish)

predecessor	Office	successor
---	Bishop of Zamość-Lubaczów 1992–2006	Waclaw Depo