Ignacy Tokarczuk (February 1, 1918 – December 29, 2012) was a Polish

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of the

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Biography

Tokarczuk was born in

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near

Tarnopol Ternópil ( uk, Тернопіль, Ternopil' ; pl, Tarnopol; yi, טאַרנאָפּל, Tarnopl, or ; he, טארנופול (טַרְנוֹפּוֹל), Tarnopol; german: Tarnopol) is a city in the west of Ukraine. Administratively, Ternopi ...

. He was ordained a priest by Bishop

Eugeniusz Baziak Eugeniusz Baziak (; 8 March 1890 in Tarnopol – 15 June 1962 in Warsaw, Poland) was Archbishop of Lviv and apostolic administrator of Kraków. Baziak was rector of the Clerical Seminarium in Lviv. Since 1933 he was an auxiliary bishop and, since ...

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on June 21, 1942. On December 2, 1965, he was appointed a Bishop of the

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, and was consecrated by Cardinal

Stefan Wyszyński Stefan Wyszyński (3 August 1901 – 28 May 1981) was a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the bishop of Lublin from 1946 to 1948, archbishop of Warsaw and archbishop of Gniezno from 1948 to 1981. He was created a cardinal on ...

on February 6, 1966. On June 2, 1991, Tokarczuk was bestowed a personal title of archbishop by

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. On March 25, 1992, he became a

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Archbishop of Przemyśl. As the Bishop of Przemysl, he was known for building a great number of churches in his diocese despite the lack of having permission to build from the communist authorities. It is said that he has erected nearly 430 churches during his tenure as a bishop. He was also a great supporter of the

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movement. For his uncompromising stance in the defense of the institution of the Catholic Church in the

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, he was repeatedly harassed by the Polish Security Service. Tokarczuk retired from the

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on April 17, 1993 and was succeeded by Archbishop Józef Michalik. Tokarczuk was also a recipient of the Order of White Eagle, and from 2007 to 2009, he was a member of the Grand Chapter of the Order.

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