Adam Kozłowiecki Explained

Type:Cardinal
Honorific Prefix:His Eminence
Adam Kozłowiecki
Honorific Suffix:S.J.
Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale
Church:Roman Catholic Church
Appointed:21 February 1998
Term Start:28 February 1998
Successor:Odilo Scherer
Ordination:24 June 1937
Ordained By:Karol Niemira
Consecration:11 September 1955
Consecrated By:James Robert Knox
Cardinal:21 February 1998
Created Cardinal By:Pope John Paul II
Rank:Cardinal-Priest
Birth Name:Adam Kozłowiecki
Birth Date:1 April 1911
Birth Place:Huta Komorowska, Austria-Hungary (modern-Poland)
Death Place:Lusaka, Zambia
Motto:In Nomine Domini
Cardinal Name:Adam Cardinal Kozłowiecki
Dipstyle:His Eminence
Offstyle:Your Eminence
See:Lusaka (emeritus)

Cardinal Adam Kozłowiecki, S.J., (pronounced as /pl/; 1 April 1911 – 28 September 2007) was Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Lusaka in Zambia.[1]

Biography

Born in Huta Komorowska, Austria-Hungary (now part of Poland) into a noble family of Ostoja coat of arms,[2] Kozłowiecki was ordained a Jesuit priest on 24 June 1937 after studying at the Zakład Naukowo-Wychowawczy Ojców Jezuitów w Chyrowie. In 1939 he and 24 confrères were arrested by the Gestapo in Kraków and sent to Auschwitz. Six months later he was transferred to the Dachau concentration camp, where he remained until the end of the war.[3]

After his release, the Vicar General proposed that Kozłowiecki go to Northern Rhodesia, where the Polish Jesuits had a mission. He taught there for several years until being appointed Apostolic Administrator of the new Prefecture of Lusaka in 1950. As the mission grew, he was named Bishop and Vicar Apostolic on 11 September 1955. In 1959 he was appointed the first Metropolitan Archbishop of Lusaka. He resigned from the see in 1969 so that an African could be appointed Archbishop.[4]

He participated in all the sessions of the Second Vatican Council and in the first Synod of Bishops in 1967, and in the 1994 Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops dedicated to Africa. After his resignation, he continued to serve as a missionary in Zambia. He was a member of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples from 1970 to 1991.[5]

He was created a Cardinal by John Paul II in the consistory of 21 February 1998; he was Cardinal-Priest of the Titulus S. Andreae in Quirinali. Because he reached 80 before becoming Cardinal, he was not eligible to participate in the 2005 conclave. He died on 28 September 2007.[6]

The Cardinal received many recognitions, among them from President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński on 24 May 2007.[7] The Adam Kozłowiecki Museum and Foundation, "Heart without Borders", was founded in his honor.[8]

Sources

pap, ss: Zmarł kardynał Kozłowiecki (pol.). wprost.pl, 2007-09-28. [dostęp 2011-06-20].

M.P. z 2007 r. nr 57, poz. 641

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Notes and References

  1. Stanisław Cieślak SJ, Kardynał Adam Kozłowiecki. Wyd. 1. Kraków, WAM, sierpień 2008, p. 6, 11, seria: Wielcy Ludzie Kościoła.
  2. Grzebień L., Genealogia rodu Kozłowieckich herbu Ostoja oraz rodu Dolańskich, Fedorowiczów i Janochów, Fundacja im. Księdza Kardynała Adama Kozłowieckiego, „Serce bez Granic", Majdan Królewski 2014
  3. http://www.auschwitz.org/muzeum/archiwum/ MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU
  4. Stanisław Cieślak SJ: Kardynał Adam Kozłowiecki. W: Wielcy Ludzie Kościoła. Kraków: Wydaw. WAM, 2008. pages 6, 11 and 146-147
  5. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bkozl.html The Hierarchy of the Catholic Church
  6. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bkozl.html The Hierarchy of the Catholic Church
  7. Web site: ŚP. Kardynał Kozłowiecki – odznaczony Krzyżem Wielkim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski . 19 September 2020 . 14 August 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200814173512/https://www.prezydent.pl/archiwum-lecha-kaczynskiego/aktualnosci/rok-2007/art,149,371,prezydent-rp-nadal-odznaczenie.html . dead .
  8. https://greenvelo.pl/detal/1726-greenvelo-muzeum-kardynala-adama-kozlowieckiego-sj Museum