Adam Feliks Dyczkowski (17 November 1932 – 10 January 2021) was a Polish

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bishop. Dyczkowski was born in

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and was ordained to the priesthood in 1957. He served as

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of ''Altava'' and as an auxiliary bishop of the

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, from 1978 to 1992. He also served as an auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Legnica in 1992 and 1993. Later, he became the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Zielona Góra-Gorzów, Poland, holding the position from 1993 to 2007. Dyczkowski died from

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on 10 January 2021, during the

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