Archbishop Stanisław Szymecki †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Białystok, Poland

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 Jan 1924		Born
3 May 1947	23.2	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Katowice, Poland
3 Jul 1947	23.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Katowice, Poland
27 Mar 1981	57.1	Appointed	Bishop of Kielce, Poland
12 Apr 1981	57.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kielce, Poland
15 May 1993	69.3	Appointed	Archbishop of Białystok, Poland
5 Jun 1993	69.3	Installed	Archbishop of Białystok, Poland
16 Nov 2000	76.8	Retired	Archbishop of Białystok, Poland
26 Sep 2023	99.6	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Białystok, Poland

MicroData Summary
Stanisław Szymecki
Archbishop Stanisław Szymecki
(born 26 Jan 1924, died 26 Sep 2023)
Archbishop Emeritus of Białystok

Ad Limina - December 2005: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Katowice (Załęska Hałda), Diocese of Katowice
Ordained Deacon Collège des Irlandais, Chapel, Paris, Archdiocese of Paris, France
Ordained Priest Collège des Irlandais, Chapel, Paris, Archdiocese of Paris, France
Ordained Bishop Sistine, Chapel, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Białystok, Archdiocese of Białystok

a priest for 76.2 years
a bishop for 42.4 years

Ordained Deacon by:
Archbishop St. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli †
Titular Archbishop of Mesembria
Ordained Priest by:
Emmanuel Célestin Cardinal Suhard †
Archbishop of Paris
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Szczepan Wesoly †
Titular Bishop of Dragonara
Bishop Jan Gurda †
Titular Bishop of Thasbalta

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Marian Florczyk (1981)
Bishop Andrzej Kaleta (1985)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Mieczyslaw Jaworski † (1982)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Adam Odzimek † (1985)
Bishop Piotr Skucha (1987)
Bishop Antoni Pacyfik Dydycz, O.F.M. Cap. † (1994)
Bishop Stefan Cichy (1998)
Bishop Henryk Ciereszko (2012)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 101960758
WikiData: Q515467

Source(s):

od/c0/loc: AJ, 17 Jul 2018
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 66, Number 5,195

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