Stanislaw Padewski

Stanisław Padewski OFMCap ( Ukrainian : Станіслав Тадеушович Падевський * 18 September 1932 in Nowa Huta , Province Tarnopol , Second Polish Republic , now Ukraine; † 29. January 2017 in Sędziszów Małopolski , Poland ) was a Ukrainian religious cleric and a Roman Catholic bishop .

Life

Born in 1932 near Buczacz (then Tarnopol Voivodeship in Eastern Poland, now Buschatsch , Ukraine), he and his family were forcibly relocated to Nowe Miasteczko (Neustädtel) near Nowa Sól ( New Salt on the Oder) in western Poland in December 1945 . In Nowa Sól he attended the Lyceum for two years before entering the Capuchin monastery in Sędziszów Małopolski in 1949 , where he took the religious name Wenanty . After his first profession in 1950, he made his perpetual profession on September 19, 1953 in the Capuchin monastery in Cracow. From 1952 to 1957 Padewski studied philosophy and theology at the Higher Spiritual Seminary of the Capuchin Brothers in Cracow.

Stanisław Padewski was born on 24 February 1957 by the auxiliary bishop of Krakow , Stanislaw Rospond , for priests ordained. In 1957 he graduated from the Kochanowski Lyceum in Krakow. From 1957 to 1959 he was a catechist and parish vicar in the Capuchin parish in Bytom . He then worked as a religion teacher in a Krakow school and as a singing teacher in the Capuchin seminary. In 1961 he began studying at the Faculty of Humanities at the Catholic University of Lublin , which he continued from 1964 at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and graduated in 1966 with a Masters in Polish Philology. In 1964 he was a chaplain at the University of Wroclaw for a year . Later he was a youth catechist at the Krosno Middle School . In the years 1970–1973 he was Guardian of the monastery in Cracow and confessor of the Saint Bernard sisters and the servants Maria Immaculata . After moving to Rozwadów he was first resident vicar and catechist, from 1976 to 1985 he held the office of house guardian and provost of the monastery and parish. In the meantime he was appointed vicar provincial. He was then a chaplain in Piła and Sędziszów Małopolski.

From 1988 he worked on the territory of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic , among other things as a chaplain in the parishes of Bar , Polonne , Kiev , Starokonstantynow and Schepetowka . In 1989, he settled in Starokonstantynov, where he tried to regain the monastery and church, and in 1990 he became a pastor there. In 1991 he was the Delegate of the Provincial of Krakow to Ukraine and the Soviet Union. He looked after candidates for the postulate and novitiate, as the representative of the Provincial, coordinated contacts with ecclesiastical and civil authorities as well as the apostolate and religious life of the brothers. In 1992 he was house guard and pastor in Vinnitsa . He was also pastor of the surrounding cities of Teplyk , Graczow, Kuna and Samchyntsi . In 1994 he received Ukrainian citizenship.

Pope John Paul II appointed him titular bishop of Tigias and auxiliary bishop in Kamianets-Podilskyi on April 13, 1995 . He received his episcopal ordination from the Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine, Archbishop Antonio Franco on June 10, 1995; Co- consecrators were Marian Jaworski , Archbishop of Lviv , and Jan Olszański MIC , Bishop of Kamjanets-Podilskyj. His motto was "Agnus Vincet".

On October 10, 1998 he was appointed auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Lviv .

Four years later, on May 4, 2002, Pope John Paul II appointed him the first bishop of the Kharkiv-Zaporizhia diocese established on the same date . The inauguration in the Assumption Cathedral in Kharkiv took place on July 10, 2002.

On March 19, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI. his age-related retirement. He returned to Poland and initially lived in the Capuchin monastery in Kielce. However, after a few months he returned to the priestly service in Ukraine. In 2012 he settled in the monastery in Sędziszów Małopolski, where he died on January 29, 2017.

Web links

• Entry on Stanisław Padewski on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
-	Bishop of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia 2002–2009	Marian Buczek