Kazimierz Tomczak

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Kazimierz Tomczak (1883–1967) was a 20th-century Polish bishop theologian and teacher, interned by the Nazi forces during World War II. He was born on 17 February 1883 in Besiekierz and studied at the Jesuit School in Chyrów, where he graduated from high school. He studied also at the Saint Petersburg Roman Catholic Theological Academy, in Paris, and in Freiburg, and was ordained a priest on 7 January 1907. For 16 years he worked as a professor at the Warsaw Seminary, where he taught moral theology, the history of philosophy, archaeology, Christian liturgy and literature. In 1936, he was one of the founders of the Society of Friends of Science in Łódź. On 25 February 1927, Pope Pius XII appointed him the first auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Łódź and titular bishop of Sicca Veneria. He was ordained bishop on 3 April 1927 in Warsaw Cathedral by cardinal Aleksander Kakowski. On 6 September 1939, after the Invasion of Poland, he headed the Citizens' Committee of Łódź with the task of keeping law and order after the Polish authorities fled the city and representing city residents to the German occupation authorities. He was arrested on 9 November 1939 during a large…Citește mai mult