Kazimierz Lagosz

Kazimierz Lagosz (born February 29, 1888 in Krosno , † September 20, 1961 in Warsaw ) was a vicar capitular of Wroclaw appointed by the communist government of Poland .

Life

His parents were Józef Lagosz and Rozalia, b. Szlązek. After attending grammar schools in Tarnów and Jasło , he studied theology at Lviv University and then worked as a pastor in the Lviv diocese . During the First World War he organized pastoral care in Austria for the Catholics from Galicia who had fled there , for which he published the magazine “Rodak” from 1915 onwards.

From 1940 Lagosz worked for the Diocese of Krakow . After the end of the Second World War, he went to Breslau at the beginning of May 1945, where he was supposed to take care of religious life and the reconstruction of the destroyed churches. When communicating with the staff of the Vicariate General , who were still in office, his knowledge of German helped him. With his support, the partially destroyed St. Dorotheen Church was rebuilt and consecrated in 1946 by Cardinal August Hlond . In 1948 Lagosz, who was pastor of St. Boniface, was appointed archpriest and visitor of the Wroclaw deanery by the apostolic administrator Karol Milik , whereby he was also given legal and liturgical powers.

On January 26, 1951, the Polish communist government deposed all incumbent apostolic administrators in the former German dioceses and appointed in their place “patriotic priests” who were referred to as “capitular vicars” and whose appointment the Holy See had never recognized. Although Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński saw the order as a snub to the Church, he gave the appropriate consent, all the worse, e.g. B. a schism to avoid.

Kazimierz Lagosz became the new vicar capitular of Wroclaw. He carried out the office of capitular vicar in relation to the state authorities, willing to compromise, but rendered services to the maintenance of the Wroclaw Catholic Institute, which the government wanted to liquidate. During his term of office, the state ban on religious instruction, the dissolution of the diocesan and religious convents as well as the women's convents and the nationalization of monastic property.

After the political liberalization of Poland in 1956, in which Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński was also released from prison, the incumbent "capitular vicars" were released and their posts were filled with auxiliary bishops who had been appointed in 1951 and whose secret episcopal ordination took place until 1956 had to stay. Auxiliary Bishop Bolesław Kominek received the office of vicar capitular in Wroclaw . Kazimierz Lagosz left Wroclaw and then lived in Warsaw, where he died in 1961.

literature

• Józef Pater: The resettlement of Lower Silesia in the context of the re-establishment of the diocese of Breslau from 1945 to 1951 . In: Cultures in Encounter. Collegium Pontes, Wrocław · Görlitz 2004, ISBN 83-7432-018-4

Web links

• 1951–1956 Years of Stalinist Terror (Polish) , accessed December 11, 2016

predecessor	Office	successor
Karol Milik	Administrator (“Vicar Capitular”) of the Archdiocese of Wroclaw, Wroclaw District 1951–1956	Bolesław Kominek