Jan Władysław Obłąk

Jan Władysław Oblak ( born May 26, 1913 in Borzęcin, † 16 December 1988 in Olsztyn ) was a Polish Catholic priest, Bishop of Warmia in 1982 to 1988.

Life

After finishing high school in Tarnów, he joined in 1931 the local seminary. On 26 June 1936 he was ordained priest. He then worked as a curate in Ciężkowice, in Nowy Sacz later. During the Second World War, he was from 1943 parish administrator in Lisia Góra. He also gave secret instruction in Latin, as leading higher schools for Poland in the General Government were not accessible. In 1947 he was transferred to Dąbrowa Tarnovska. At the same time he studied church history at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, where he received a doctorate was awarded on August 17, 1948.

On 12 August 1949 he came to Olsztyn ( Olsztyn ) and was a few weeks later a lecturer at the re-established seminary. He was chancellor of and taught church history, patristics and sacred art. On 26 October 1959 he was appointed by Bishop Tomasz Wilczynski for Canon of Warmia chapter. Two years later, on September 21, 1961 appointed him John XXIII. Titular Bishop of Abbir Maius - the episcopal ordination was Oblak on 1 April 1962 by Primate Stefan Wyszynski in the cathedral at Frombork ( Mrs. Castle ). In the autumn of the same year he became vicar general of the diocese of Warmia. From 1962 to 1968 he was also rector of the seminary in Olsztyn. He participated in the second and fourth sessions of the Second Vatican Council.

After Józef Glemp, who had since 1979 Bishop of Warmia, was appointed in 1981 to the Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw and thus Primate of Poland, he headed the diocese, first as vicar before he appointed on 13 April 1982 by Pope John Paul II to the diocesan bishop been. For his contributions to the teaching of the history of Warmia In 1982 he became an honorary member of the Polish Historical Society.