Zygmunt Zimowski

Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski (2008)

Zygmunt Zimowski (born April 7, 1949 in Kupienin , Poland , † July 12, 2016 in Dąbrowa Tarnowska ) was a curial archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Zygmunt Zimowski occurred in 1967 in the seminary of the Diocese of Tarnów and received on 27 May in 1973 by the Bishop of Tarnów, Jerzy Karol Ablewicz , the ordination . Then he was vicar in Stary Sącz . Zimowski studied from 1975 to 1978 at the Catholic University of Lublin and obtained a licentiate in dogmatics . From 1978 to 1982 he studied at the Leopold Franzens University in Innsbruck . Zimowski received his doctorate in theology in 1982 under Professor Raymund Schwager with a dogmatic dissertation entitled "The Influence of the Council Fathers of the East and Orthodox Observers on the Theology of" Lumen Gentium "" .

On February 1, 1983, Zygmunt Zimowski entered the service of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith . On April 14, 1988, Pope John Paul II appointed him a Papal Honorary Chaplain and July 10, 1999, an Honorary Papal Prelate. Zimowski was the postulator of the beatification and canonization processes of Karolina Kózka , Roman Sitko and Maria Julitta Ritz . Zygmunt Zimowski also worked on the Catechism of the Catholic Church in Polish and was active in the Polish department of Vatican Radio . During this time he also taught ecclesiology at the Catholic University of Lublin and at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw .

On March 28, 2002, Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Radom . He was ordained bishop on May 25, 2002 by the then Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and later Pope Benedict XVI. , Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger; Co- consecrators were the Apostolic Nuncio in Poland, Archbishop Józef Kowalczyk , and the former Bishop of Radom, Edward Henryk Materski . Zygmunt Zimowski chose the motto Non ministrari sed ministrare! (“Do not be served, but serve!”), Which comes from the Gospel according to Matthew ( Mt 20.28 EU ). Zimowski was President of the Doctrine of the Faith Commission at the Polish Bishops' Conference . He was also a member of the Permanent Council of the Polish Bishops' Conference and a member of the Ecumenical Commission. Zygmunt Zimowski was also the delegate for the pastoral care of migrants in Poland.

On April 18, 2009 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him. President of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care and bestowed on him the personal title of Archbishop.

The 21st World Day of the Sick was organized by him in 2013 in Germany. At the accompanying conference "Doing good for who suffers" on 7./8. In February 2013 at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt a book was published with the programmatic title “Doing good that suffers. Help for sick people - viewed from an interdisciplinary perspective ”(Springer-Verlag; ISBN 978-3-662-44279-1 ).

In 2015 it became known that Zimowski had pancreatic cancer . He succumbed to this disease in July 2016 at the age of 67.

Awards

2008: Honorary doctorate from the Christian Theological Academy in Warsaw

Memberships

Congregation for Bishops (confirmed 2013)

Web links

Commons : Zygmunt Zimowski - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Entry on Zygmunt Zimowski on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved December 16, 2013.
Biography on the homepage of the Diocese of Radom (Polish)

Individual evidence

^ Nomina del Vescovo di Radom (Polonia). In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, March 28, 2002, accessed April 20, 2015 (Italian).
^ Rinuncia del Presidente del Pontificio Consiglio per gli Operatori Sanitari (per la Pastorale della Salute) e Nomina del Successore. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, April 18, 2009, accessed April 20, 2015 (Italian).
^ Cardinal Zygmunt Zimowski suffers from cancer. Vatican Radio, January 13, 2015, archived from the original on February 13, 2015 ; Retrieved April 20, 2015 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Javier Cardinal Lozano Barragán	President of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care 2009–2016	---
Jan Chrapek CSMA	Bishop of Radom 2002–2009	Henryk Tomasik

personal data
SURNAME	Zimowski, Zygmunt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish Curial Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH	April 7, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kupienin , Poland
DATE OF DEATH	July 12, 2016
Place of death	Dąbrowa Tarnowska

[1] Nomina del Vescovo di Radom (Polonia). In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, March 28, 2002, accessed April 20, 2015 (Italian).

[2] Rinuncia del Presidente del Pontificio Consiglio per gli Operatori Sanitari (per la Pastorale della Salute) e Nomina del Successore. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, April 18, 2009, accessed April 20, 2015 (Italian).

[3] Cardinal Zygmunt Zimowski suffers from cancer. Vatican Radio, January 13, 2015, archived from the original on February 13, 2015 ; Retrieved April 20, 2015 .