Adam Stefan Sapieha

Adam Stefan Stanisław Józef Cardinal Sapieha Bonfatiusz ( born May 14, 1867 in Krasiczyn; † 23 July 1951, Kraków ) was archbishop of Krakow.

Life

Sapieha was born as the youngest of seven children of Prince Adam Stanisław Sapieha - Kodenski and his wife Jadwiga Klementyna Princess Sanguszko - Lubartowicz. He studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and was ordained a priest by the then Bishop of Krakow Jan Puzyna Cardinal de Kozelsk on 1 October 1893. He taught at the seminary of the Diocese of Lviv, the rain it was 1898.

On November 24, 1911, he was appointed bishop of Krakow and was consecrated on 17 December of the same year by Pope Pius X; Co-consecrators were the then Archbishop Curia Augusto Silj and Bishop Agostino Zampini OSA. 1925 Krakow was raised to an archbishopric and Sapieha became the first archbishop of Krakow. In the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of Austria - Hungary, he possessed as bishop of Cracow on a Virilstimme in the Galician parliament. During the German occupation of Poland in World War II Sapieha was forced to lead the Krakow seminary secret on. He brought the seminarians under which Karol Wojtyła also, the future Pope John Paul II, in his bishop's palace at, where they could continue their education.

On 16 February 1946 he was created cardinal and assigned him a cardinal priest, the titular church of Santa Maria Nuova. In the same year Karol Wojtyła Sapieha ordained in the chapel of his palace as a priest. Sapieha died in 1951 and is buried in Krakow's Wawel Castle.