Adam Kozłowiecki

Adam Cardinal Kozlowiecki SJ ( born April 1, 1911 in Huta Komorowska in Rzeszow, Poland, † September 28, 2007 in Lusaka, Zambia) was Archbishop of Lusaka.

Life

Adam Kozlowiecki resigned after his school years in the Jesuit Order and studied Catholic theology and philosophy. In 1937 he received the sacrament of Holy Orders. Two years later, he and 24 other Jesuit arrested by the Gestapo in Krakow and first six months later deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Dachau concentration camp. He remained in the parish priest block until the end of World War II. After the liberation of his religious superior sent him as a pastor in the run by Polish Jesuit Mission in Northern Rhodesia, where he worked as a teacher and priest until 1950.

On June 4, 1955, Adam Kozlowiecki by Pope Pius XII. appointed Titular Bishop of Diospolis Inferior and (then Northern Rhodesia ) Vicar Apostolic of the newly established Apostolic Vicariate in Lusaka ordered. On 11 September of the same year Kozlowiecki received episcopal ordination by the then Apostolic Envoy for British East Africa, James Robert Knox. He led from now on as chief shepherd the Apostolic Vicariate.

1959 he was appointed by Pope John XXIII. Archbishop of Lusaka. In 1969 he resigned from this office back to make way for a local bishop freely and was appointed Titular Archbishop of Potentia in Piceno. He found a new workplace as a missionary in Zambia. From 1970 to 1991 he was a member of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Pope John Paul II took Adam Kozlowiecki in 1998 as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale in the College of Cardinals to.