Kazimierz Nycz
Kazimierz Cardinal Nycz ( born 1 February 1950 in Stara Wies, Poland) is Archbishop of Warsaw.
Life
Kazimierz Nycz was born in Stara Wies, the "old village" near Auschwitz. In 1967 he entered the seminary in Krakow and studied theology and philosophy. On May 8, 1972 Kazimierz Nycz was consecrated by the then Archbishop of Krakow, Cardinal Karol Józef Wojtyla as a deacon. May 20th 1973, Kazimierz Nycz received the sacrament of Holy Orders by the Bishop of Cracow Julian Groblicki. He spent two years as a chaplain in Jaworzno Szczakowa and Raciborowice Górne. In 1976 he finished his theological studies at the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Krakow. Started in 1977 doctoral studies at the Catholic University of Lublin, he finished in 1981 with the work " Realizacja odnowy katechetycznej Soboru Watykańskiego II w archidiecezji krakowskiej " (Eng. The implementation of catechetical renewal of the Second Vatican Council in the Archdiocese of Krakow ).
From 1981 he was working for the Department of catechesis in the Metropolitan Curia of Krakow. Kazimierz Nycz In addition, staff has been active in parish ministry of Skawina. In 1987 he became a lecturer of Catechetics at the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Krakow and chancellor of the seminary of Krakow.
On May 14, 1988, Pope John Paul II appointed titular bishop of Villa Regis and auxiliary bishop in Krakow. The bishop He was ordained on June 4 of that year by Cardinal Franciszek Macharski. Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Tarnów, Archbishop Jerzy Karol Ablewicz, and the bishop of Czestochowa, Stanislaw Nowak. His episcopal motto is "Ex hominibus, per hominibus " (Eng. From the people and for the people ). From 1988 to 2004 he was a Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Kraków. He organized the last three visits of John Paul II in Krakow.
On 9 June 2004, Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg;
On 26 November 1999, the Polish Bishops' Conference elected him President of the Commission for Catholic Education, with a particular focus on catechesis. He developed the encyclical " The curriculum of religion" (Program nauczania religii ), "Curriculum Catechism of the Catholic Church in Poland " ( Podstawa programowa katechezy Kościoła katolickiego w Polsce ) and " Catechetical Directory of the Catholic Church in Poland " ( Dyrektorium katechetyczne Kościoła katolickiego w Polsce ). Since December 2004 Nycz is a member of the Permanent Council of the Polish Bishops' Conference. He is Chairman of the Board of the foundation work of the new millennium. He is Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Standing Committee, the Council for Social Communications and the Panel on Social Aspects.
On March 3, 2007 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him. Archbishop of Warsaw as the successor of Archbishop Stanislaw Wielgus resigned. The canonical possession of the Archdiocese through the enthronement of the new Archbishop of St. John's Cathedral in Warsaw took place on 1 April 2007.
In solemn consistory of November 20, 2010 Pope Benedict XVI took him. as cardinal priest with the titular church of Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti in the College of Cardinals. In January 2013, Kazimierz Nycz spoke out against state recognition of homosexual couples. Following the resignation of Benedict XVI. Cardinal Nycz took part in the conclave of 2013.
Coat of arms and motto
Auxiliary Bishop of Krakow
The coat of arms shows a golden cross on a blue background with an extended transom. Under the cross Mary, the miraculous image of Kalwaria a place of pilgrimage in the diocese of Krakow. The crest is the coat of arms Pope John Paul II modeled, which is also under an elongated cross beam of the cross, a M, symbolically - is - Mary under the cross.
Standing behind the shield the bishop's cross, above the green bishop's miter ( Galero ) with six green tassels ( fiocchi ) including the motto.
His motto Ex Hominibus per Hominibus ("from the people for the people " ) is taken from the letter of St. Paul to the Hebrews (Heb 5.1 EU).
Bishop of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg
The coat of arms shows a red cross on a blue ground bar from the top left to right bottom. Top right: a red and a silver / white crown, left a golden crosier ( crozier ) and a paddle crossed over a silver / white miter. Below the silver white wavy lines.
The coat of arms refers to the Auschwitz birthplace of Kazimierz Nyzc. The red horizontal bar represents the martyrdom, but also the passion of Christ. The two crowns (red for martyrs / white for confessors ) to the blue sky, symbolic of all the victims in the concentration camp Auschwitz, the crown of life in heaven win .. bar, paddles and Mitra are among the insignia or Pontifikalien a Catholic bishop.
The wavy lines represent the habitat Baltic whose coastline the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg in the Pomeranian Voivodeship is located.
In the Bischofsatribute (green Galero with right and left six fiocchi ), the bottom of the tape of the motto.
Archbishop of Warsaw
The coat of arms shows on a red background the golden cross, even more clearly indicative of the revered Pope John Paul II, including a silver / white dove, as a mission of the Holy Spirit, including the shell, symbolizing the Archdiocese of Warsaw and three silver / white drops, the water of baptism.
Behind the shield upright the double cross of an archbishop, and the green Galero with ten tassels arranged in four rows, right and left hanging. Below the shield the tape with the motto. With his appointment as cardinal the escutcheon surrounds a red Galero and each fifteen red tassels in five rows.
Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem
The Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem, Edwin Frederick O'Brien Cardinal, appointed him in 2013 to Knight Grand Cross and Grand Prior of the Polish Lieutenancy of the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem. He succeeds Cardinal Józef Glemp. The inauguration took place in the St. John's Cathedral in Warsaw on 29 August 2013.