Jerzy Tomziński

Jerzy Jan Tomziński OSPPE (born November 24, 1918 in Przystajń ) is a Polish Roman Catholic religious and emeritus Prior General of the Paulines .

Life

Jerzy Tomziński joined the Pauline Order in Cracow in 1935 and was ordained a priest on July 16, 1952 . From 1938 he studied philosophy and theology at the Pauline Hauptseminar in Krakow. With the beginning of the Second World War in 1939 he continued his studies in Jasna Góra (Częstochowa) , the Polish pilgrimage site in Częstochowa , where he made his profession in 1942. On April 16, 1944, he was ordained a priest from Bishop Teodor Kubina in Jasna Góra. In 1945 he was appointed curator of the Jasna Góra sanctuary. In 1949 he became pastor, prior and administrator of the Marian Shrine in Leśna Podlaska . He was prior of the Pauline Monastery in Krakow from 1952 to 1957. In 1957 he began a doctoral degree in canon law; his doctoral supervisor at the Gregoriana was Urbano Navarrete . At the same time he was the prior of the Pauline monastery in Rome and general procurator of the Pauline Order at the Holy See. From 1963 to 1969 and from 1969 to 1975 Jerzy Tomziński was Prior General of the Paulines. In 1965 he was a participant in the last session of the Second Vatican Council . He was in turn the prior of the Pauline Monastery in Krakow from 1990 to 1993.

Web links

• Entry on Jerzy Tomziński on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Ludwik Nowak	Prior General of the Paulines 1963–1975	Grzegorz Kotnis