Józef Feliks Gawlina (17 November 1882 – 21 September 1964) was a Roman Catholic bishop and divisional general in the Polish Armed Forces. He was an ordained priest, Doctor of Theology and, from 1933, bishop of the Military Ordinariate of Poland. After the Second World War, Cardinal August Hlond gave him the brief to provide pastoral care to the Polish diaspora. In the words of Pope John Paul II, Gawlina was a "bishop-nomad". In 1957 he was raised to the rank of archbishop. Following his death, the Secretary General of the Second Vatican Council described him as a "real pastor".
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