Wilhelm Pluta

Wilhelm Pluta (born January 9, 1910 in Kochlowitz , Upper Silesia , † January 22, 1986 near Crossen an der Oder ) was a Roman Catholic clergyman and first bishop of the Polish diocese of Landsberg an der Warthe .

Monument in Gorzów Wielkopolski

Life

The son of an Upper Silesian family of miners entered the seminary of the Archdiocese of Krakow after graduating from high school and studied at the Jagiellonian University . On 24 June 1934 he received from Bishop Teofil Bromboszcz from Katowice to priestly ordination .

Until 1939 Pluta worked as a teacher in Bielitz . After the invasion of the German Wehrmacht , he became a pastor in Königshütte and, after further stops in 1946, pastor in Koschentin . In 1948 he was transferred to Lublinitz . During the time in Koschentin was Pluta at the Jagiellonian University to Dr. theol. PhD . In 1951 Wilhelm Pluta moved again and became pastor in Kattowitz-Zalenze .

On July 4, 1958, Pope Pius XII appointed him . as titular bishop of Leptis Magna and administrator of the Polish administrative district belonging to the Archdiocese of Breslau with its seat in Landsberg an der Warthe . He was ordained bishop by the Primate of Poland, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński , on September 7th of the same year. Co-consecrators were auxiliary bishop Bolesław Kominek from Opole and Herbert Bednorz , coadjutor bishop of Katowice.

Pluta attended the first and third session of the Second Vatican Council as a council father .

After the church reorganization of the previously German areas, Wilhelm Pluta was on June 28, 1972 by Pope Paul VI. appointed first bishop of the newly founded diocese of Landsberg an der Warthe.

Pluta died during a trip to Guben in a car accident and was in the cathedral buried by Landsberg.

The diocese Grünberg-Landsberg an der Warthe has initiated the beatification process for Wilhelm Pluta.

Web links

• Entry on Wilhelm Pluta on catholic-hierarchy.org