Catholic University of Lublin John Paul II

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Catholic University of Lublin
"John Paul II."
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founding December 8, 1918
Sponsorship Roman Catholic Church in Poland
place Lublin
country PolandPoland Poland
Rector Antoni Dębiński
Students 20,317
Networks FIUC
Website www.kul.lublin.pl
University Church

The Catholic University of Lublin John Paul II (Polish: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II. ) - KULJPII for short - is a private Catholic university in Lublin , Poland . Until the spring of 2005, it was only called the Catholic University of Lublin (abbreviated to KUL ). In June 2007, 18,582 students were enrolled at the university.

history

The university was founded in 1918 as the legal successor and partly with the professors of the Roman Catholic Theological Academy in Petersburg, which the Soviet government repealed in the same year. Until 1928 it was called Uniwersytet Lubelski . In 1938 she acquired the right to habilitation . The Scientific Society of the KUL has existed since 1934, the Ecumenical Institute since 1983 and the John Paul II Institute , which has had a leading scientific position since the pontificate of Pope John Paul II . During the time of the People's Republic of Poland , the KUL was one of the most important bastions in the fight against communism.

The university senate decided on April 4, 2005 to rename the university to the "Catholic University of Lublin John Paul II" ( Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II ).

Faculties

The KUL currently has five faculties :

The Faculty of Philosophy was founded in 1946. Monika Walczak heads the faculty as dean . The faculty currently offers the following fields of study: philosophy, cognitive science and rhetoric .

Well-known lecturers

Well-known lecturers in the history of the Catholic University of Lublin (before the Second World War ; during the occupation the professors of the university taught completely secretly in Lublin, Warsaw and Kielce ; after the Second World War):

Prominent students

  • Stefan Wyszyński (1901–1981), Bishop of Lublin, later Archbishop of Gniezno (Gniezno) and Warsaw and Primate of Poland
  • Ignacy Tokarczuk (1918–2012), Archbishop of Przemyśl
  • Czesław Lewandowski (1920–2008), auxiliary bishop in Włocławek
  • Jan Mazur (1920–2008), Bishop of Siedlce
  • Jan Charytański (1922–2009), Polish Jesuit. He was considered a capacity of the catechism in the 20th century
  • Henryk Roman Gulbinowicz (* 1923), Polish clergyman and emeritus Archbishop of Breslau
  • Marian Zimałek (* 1931), emeritus Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Sandomierz
  • Tadeusz Gocłowski (1931–2016), Archbishop Emeritus of Danzig
  • Zygmunt Kamiński (* 1933), retired Archbishop of Stettin-Cammin
  • Alfons Nossol (* 1934), Roman Catholic theologian and emeritus bishop of Opole
  • Damian Zimoń (* 1934), bishop emeritus / archbishop of Katowice
  • Stanisław Kędziora (1934–2017), Polish clergyman and auxiliary bishop in Warsaw-Praga
  • Tadeusz Pieronek (1934–2018), Polish clergyman and auxiliary bishop in Sosnowiec
  • Marian Gołębiewski (* 1937), Polish clergyman and emeritus Archbishop of Wroclaw
  • Stanisław Wielgus (* 1939), Polish clergyman and retired Archbishop of Warsaw
  • Georg Hentschel (* 1941), professor emeritus for exegesis and theology of the Old Testament at the University of Erfurt
  • Wojciech Ziemba (* 1941), Polish clergyman and emeritus Roman Catholic Archbishop of Warmia
  • Stanisław Wilk (* 1944), Rector of the Catholic University of Lublin
  • Sławoj Leszek Głódź (* 1945), Archbishop of Danzig
  • Zygmunt Zimowski (1949–2016), Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Bogdan Borusewicz (* 1949), Polish politician of the Civic Platform (PO) and was Chairman of the Senate from 2005 to 2015. On July 8, 2010 he temporarily took over the office of President Lech Kaczyński, who was killed in the plane crash near Smolensk
  • Jacek Jezierski (* 1949), Catholic clergyman and Bishop of Elbląg
  • Kazimierz Nycz (* 1950), Polish clergyman and Archbishop of Warsaw
  • Józef Niewiadomski (* 1951), Polish-Austrian Catholic theologian
  • Peter Jaskola (* 1952), Polish Catholic priest and professor of theology at the University of Opole
  • Marcin Zawiła (* 1958), Polish politician of the Platforma Obywatelska (Civic Platform)
  • Rafał Dutkiewicz (* 1959), Mayor (Mayor) of Wrocław from 2002 to 2018
  • Marek Mendyk (* 1961), Polish Roman Catholic clergyman and Bishop of Schweidnitz
  • Mieczysław Mokrzycki (* 1961), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lemberg
  • Witold Bałażak (* 1964), Polish politician of the League Polskich Rodzin (LPR)
  • Janusz Palikot (* 1964), a Polish entrepreneur, politician (TR, formerly PO)
  • Sławomir Rogucki (* 1965), Polish politician and historian
  • Arkadiusz Czartoryski (* 1966), member of the Sejm and former State Secretary in the Polish Ministry of Interior and Administration
  • Mirosław Piotrowski (1966), Polish historian and politician
  • Jarosław Urbaniak (* 1966), Polish politician of the Platforma Obywatelska (Civic Platform)
  • Rafał Kubicki (* 1974), Professor of Medieval History in Gdansk
  • Anna Brzezińska (* 1971), Polish writer in the fantasy genre

See also

Web links

Commons : Catholic University of Lublin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Members. In: www.fiuc.org. International Federation of Catholic Universities, accessed September 29, 2019 .
  2. Studenci szkół wyższych według województw i szkół (łącznie z cudzoziemcami). Stan w dniu 30 XI 2007 r. in Szkoły wyższe i ich finanse w 2007 r. Główny Urząd Statystyczny, June 30, 2007, archived from the original on November 18, 2008 ; Retrieved June 3, 2018 (Polish).
  3. ^ Franz-Josef Sehr : Professor from Poland in Beselich annually for decades . In: Yearbook for the Limburg-Weilburg district 2020 . The district committee of the district of Limburg-Weilburg, Limburg-Weilburg 2019, ISBN 3-927006-57-2 , p. 223-228 .

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