Jan Kanty Lorek

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Jan Kanty Rafał Lorek (20 October 1886 – 4 January 1967) was a Roman Catholic bishop of Sandomierz.

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Biography Lorek was born in 1886 in Błażejowice. After being kicked out of school due to his Polish nationality, he entered into minor seminary for the Congregation of the Mission in Kraków in 1902; he entered into an intermediate seminary in 1905 and took his monastic vows on 27 September 1907. Afterwards, he began studying at a theological institute for the Congregation in the neighborhood of Stradom, Kraków; he was given minor orders on 25 March 1909, was ordained to the subdiaconate on 26 March 1910 and was made a deacon on 18 December 1910. He was ordained a priest on 2 July 1911 in Wawel Cathedral by Anatol Nowak, who was auxiliary bishop of Kraków. In November 1916, Lorek was drafted into the Imperial German Army. He was originally assigned to office work in Opole, later being assigned to take care of Polish seasonal workers and prisoners of war in the Diocese of Hildesheim. In 1921, he was appointed director of the Siemaszko Institution, located in Kraków – he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta on 27 November 1929 for his work in regards to the Institution. In 1930, he was appointed prior and…Citește mai mult