Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski

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Cardinal Ledochowski as Prefect of the Congregation for Propaganda Fide , Rome (1892)
Epitaph for Cardinal Ledochowski in Poznan Cathedral by Władysław Marcinkowski
Monument in Ostrów Wlkp.
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Mieczysław Cardinal Halka Ledóchowski (born October 29, 1822 in Górki ( Diocese of Sandomir in Poland ), † July 22, 1902 in Rome , Italy) was Archbishop of Gniezno and Posen , Primate of Poland and later a Cardinal Curia of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

On July 13, 1845, Ledóchowski received the sacrament of ordination . In 1861 Pius IX appointed him . on September 30th as Titular Archbishop of Thebae and on October 1st as Apostolic Nuncio in Belgium . He was ordained bishop on November 3rd of the same year by Cardinal Camillo Di Pietro ; Co-consecrators were the Curia Archbishops Salvatore Nobili Vitelleschi and Alessandro Franchi .

On January 8, 1866, Pope Pius IX appointed him . to the Archbishop of Gniezno and Posen. Due to his steadfast refusal to obey the newly introduced pulpit paragraph during the Kulturkampf in Prussia , he was imprisoned by the Prussian authorities for two years in Ostrowo . This gave him the reputation of a martyr , especially among the Polish population in the province of Posen and in West Prussia , but also among German-speaking Catholics. His elevation to cardinal was still in custody on March 15, 1875. As a cardinal priest he received the titular church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli . He was also one of the cardinals who attended the 1878 conclave .

Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski (around 1874)

Pope Leo XIII. appointed Ledóchowski on January 26, 1892 prefect of the Congregation for the Propaganda of the Faith (Propaganda Fide) . Thereupon he resigned as Archbishop of Gniezno on February 2 and became cardinal priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina on November 30 .

His second nephew Vladimir Ledóchowski was a general of the Jesuits , a second niece was the holy founder of the order Ursula Ledóchowska , and another was the blessed founder of the order Maria Teresia Ledóchowska .

Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski was invested in the Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by Giuseppe Valerga , the Patriarch of Jerusalem .

He was an honorary member of the KÖStV Austria Wien in the ÖCV (founded 1876).

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Web links

Commons : Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Geneanet / Robert Baranowski: pedigree Ledóchowski
predecessor Office successor
Leon Michał Przyłuski Archbishop of Gniezno
1866–1886
Julius Dinder
Giovanni Cardinal Simeoni Prefect of the Congregation De Propaganda Fide
1892–1902
Girolamo Maria Cardinal Gotti
Teodolfo Mertel Cardinal Protopriest
1899-1902
José Sebastião Neto OFM Disc