Tadeusz Rybak (October 7, 1929 – March 7, 2017) was a Polish
Roman Catholic
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bishop. He served as the first Bishop of the
Diocese of Legnica
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between 1992 and 2002; he was also titular bishop of
Benepota between 1977 and 1992.
Ordained to the priesthood in 1953, Rybak served as auxiliary bishop of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Wrocław
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from 1977 to 1992; he then served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Legnica from 1992 to 2002. He was also
titular bishop
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of the
diocese
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, prov ...
of
Benepota, having been appointed on 28 April 1977.
Tadeusz died on 7 March 2017.
He is buried at the
Cathedral of Saint Apostles Peter and Paul in Legnica.
Notes
1929 births
2017 deaths
People from Milanówek
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin alumni
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Poland
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