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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Białkowski, Michał

Titel

Biskup Michał Klepacz jako członek Episkopatu Polski. Część II: Działalność na forum Konferencji Plenarnej oraz Komisji Głównej Episkopatu Polski

Ist Teil von

• Łódzkie Studia Teologiczne, 2021, Vol.30 (3), p.7-22

Ort / Verlag

Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne w Łodzi

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article focuses on activities of Bishop Michał Klepacz at the Plenary Session of the Episcopal Conference of Poland and the Main Committee of the Episcopal Conference of Poland. In 1953–1956, during imprisonment and internment of the Primate of Poland, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, the Łódź ordinary was a chairman of the Episcopal Conference of Poland. Circumstances of his election and his attitude towards problems of social and political life were marked by a direct interference of the Polish People’s Republic (PRL) authorities.The most important tasks executed by Bishop Michał Klepacz included: 1) specifying main directions and contents for pastoral teaching; 2) shaping relationships with the PRL authorities; 3) control and supervision over vicars capitular with powers of the residential bishop in Western and Northern Lands; and 4) general supervision over activities of religious congregations. At the same time, Bishop Michał Klepacz held a position of a chairman of the Main Committee of the Episcopal Conference of Poland, of which he had been a member already since 1949. On the return of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński to primatial sees in autumn of 1956, he remained his faithful co-worker, mainly involved in shaping relationships between the state and the Church.