Jan Kanty Lorek

Jan Kanty Lorek (born October 20, 1886 in Blazejowice , Poland , † January 4, 1967 in Sandomierz ) was Bishop of Sandomierz .

Life

Born in Blaschewitz , Upper Silesia as the son of Jan Lorek and Albina born. Korków, he entered the Congregation of Missionaries of St. Vincent de Paul CM in Cracow after finishing school . After graduating from high school, he studied philosophy and theology and was ordained a religious priest on July 2, 1911 in the Wawel Cathedral by Auxiliary Bishop Anatol Novak . From 1912 to 1916 he was director of the Institute for Orphans, then he was drafted into military service. After the First World War he worked as an area missionary in the parish mission, after which he became provincial of the religious house in Krakow.

On April 26, 1936, Pope Pius XI appointed him . as auxiliary bishop in Sandomierz and at the same time as titular bishop of Modra . He was ordained bishop on June 7, 1936 in the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw by Cardinal Aleksander Kakowski , Archbishop of Warsaw ; Co-consecrators were Archbishop Stanisław Gall , auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Warsaw, and the Polish military bishop Józef Gawlina . In the same year the Pope appointed him Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Sandomierz. The official appointment of bishop took place on March 12, 1946.

He died at the age of 81, after 56 years as a priest and 31 years in the episcopate. He found his final resting place in the crypt of the Cathedral of Sandomierz.

Web links

• Entry on Jan Kanty Lorek on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on December 31, 2016.
• Portrait on the diocese page ( Memento from July 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Polish)

predecessor	Office	successor
Włodzimierz Jasiński	Bishop of Sandomierz 1946–1967	Piotr Gołębiowski