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Zdzisław Krol
(8 May 1935 in
Zdzieborz
? 10 April 2010) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest.
Parents of Zdzisław Krol were Bolesław Piotr Krol and Marianna nee Turek. He had two brothers Stanisław and Jan.
[1]
During the war, the family sheltered two Jewish brothers, one of whom was killed.
[1]
Krol's father was exiled to Siberia by the Soviets in November 1944, returning home in 1946.
[2]
Zdzislaw Krol in 1953 began his philosophical and theological studies at the Metropolitan Seminary in
Warsaw
, from which he graduated in 1958 and was ordained a priest.
[3]
In 1960 he began his studies at the Faculty of Canon Law of the
Catholic University of Lublin
.
[3]
In 1966 he received the degree of Doctor of Laws.
[4]
In 1967 he began pastoral work in Warsaw parishes and in the chancellery of the
Warsaw archdiocese
. In 1979 he became chancellor of the Warsaw Metropolitan Curia.
[5]
He organized the funeral of Primate Stefan Wyszy?ski, and was part of the committee to build his monument in Warsaw.
[6]
During martial law, he ex officio dealt with cases of priests invigilated and arrested by the authorities.
[7]
After the murder of Father
Jerzy Popiełuszko
, he took up the matter of his burial, and also dealt with issues related to the trial of the priest's killers.
[8]
In the 1990s, he became involved in Popiełuszko's beatification process, which culminated in his beatification on June 6, 2010, two months after the Krol's death in Smolensk.
[9]
In 1980s Krol became associated with Father Stefan Niedzielak, pastor of St. Charles Borromeo parish in
Pow?zaki
.
[10]
When Niedzielak was assassinated in 1989, King took over the parish after him.
[10]
He also took over from Niedzielak as chaplain of the Warsaw Katyn Family and the maintenance of the Sanctuary for the Fallen and Murdered in the East. He was also relentless in his efforts to uncover the real murderers of Niedzielak.
[11]
In 1992, he stepped down as a chancellor of the Warsaw Metropolitan Curia and became pastor of
All Saints parish
in Warsaw. He made efforts to honor the memory of priests who saved Jews during the war, most notably Father
Marceli Godlewski
, who was parish priest at All Saints' during the occupation.
[12]
He also looked after the memory of priests murdered by the communist authorities. In June 1990, he was appointed to the
Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites
, of which he was a member until 2004.
[13]
On March 18, 1993, he was honored with the dignity of
apostolic protonotary
.
[14]
In August 2003, he was named chairman of the New Council of the Foundation for the Construction of the
Temple of Divine Providence
in
Wilanow
in Warsaw.
[15]
It was the only function he continued to conduct after his retirement in 2006.
[15]
He died in the
2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash
near Smolensk on 10 April 2010.
[16]
He was posthumously awarded the
Order of Polonia Restituta
.
[17]
References
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a
b
Mandziuk 2022
, p. 160.
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Mandziuk 2022
, p. 160-161.
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a
b
Mandziuk 2022
, p. 162.
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Mandziuk 2022
, p. 163.
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Mandziuk 2022
, p. 168.
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Mandziuk 2022
, p. 169.
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Mandziuk 2022
, p. 169-170.
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Mandziuk 2022
, p. 170.
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Mandziuk 2022
, p. 170-171.
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a
b
Mandziuk 2022
, p. 164.
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Mandziuk 2022
, p. 164-165.
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Mandziuk 2022
, p. 166-167.
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Mandziuk 2022
, p. 171.
- ^
Mandziuk 2022
, p. 167.
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a
b
Mandziuk 2022
, p. 172.
- ^
"Lista pasa?erow i załogi samolotu TU-154"
. Archived from
the original
on 2017-08-05
. Retrieved
2016-12-01
.
- ^
M.P. 2010 nr 40 poz. 587
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