Edward Henryk Materski
Edward Henryk Materski (born 6 January 1923 in Vilnius, † March 24, 2012 in Radom ) was a Polish priest. He was Roman Catholic Bishop of Radom.
Life
Edward Materski moved to his father's death in 1932 along with his mother and two sisters to Warsaw. Materski studied from 1942 to 1947 at the Faculty of Theology in Warsaw. He took part in the Warsaw Uprising .. The Bishop of Kielce, Czeslaw Kaczmarek, ordained him a priest on May 20, 1947. He was a chaplain in Chmielnik, Kielce and Kurzelów. He was private secretary to Bishop Czeslaw Kaczmarek and contact person during the show trial and imprisonment of Czeslaw Kaczmarek.
Materski was 1966-1988 Professor of catechesis at the seminary in Kielce and at the Catholic University of Lublin. He was president of the Polish Episcopal Commission for Catholic Education.
Pope Paul VI. appointed him on 29 October 1968 Titular Bishop of Aquae Sirenses and appointed him auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Kielce. The Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, donated to him on 22 December 1968 in the Cathedral of Kielce episcopal ordination; Were co-consecrators January Jaroszewicz, Bishop of Kielce, and Waclaw Skomorucha, Auxiliary Bishop in Siedlce.
On March 6, 1981, he was appointed by Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop of Sandomierz. On 25 March 1992 the appointment of the first Bishop of Radom was. Pope John Paul II consecrated the self -initiated Materski Seminary in Radom. On 28 June 1999 Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation age-related.
It was founded in 2007 by President Lech Kaczyński as one of the heroes of the Warsaw Uprising, independence and social activist with the Order of Polonia Restituta ( Commander with Star ) excellent. Materski was a freeman of the city of Radom (1996 ), Skarżysko -Kamienna (1997) and Chmielnik ( 2001).
Writings
- Materski / Niemirski: Biblia dla Ciebie, Vocatio 2004, ISBN 8374920890 ( Polish)