Jan Mazur (June 5, 1920 in
Płoskie – September 26, 2008 in
Siedlce
Siedlce () ( ) is a city in the Masovian Voivodeship in eastern Poland with 77,354 inhabitants ().
The city is situated between two small rivers, the Muchawka and the Helenka, and lies along the European route E30, around east of Warsaw. It is ...
) was the
Polish
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bishop
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of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Siedlce
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from August 6, 1968, until his retirement on March 25, 1996. He remained the Bishop
Emeritus
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In some c ...
of Siedlce until his death in 2008 at the age of 88.
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See also
External links
Catholic Hierarchy: Bishop Jan Mazur
1920 births
2008 deaths
People from Zamość County
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Poland
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