Szymon

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Archbishop Szymon, (secular birth name Szymon Romańczuk; 12 August 1936 – 28 June 2017). was the Archbishop of Łódź and Poznań.

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Biography In 1955, he graduated from the pedagogical secondary school in Bielsk Podlaski and began to study philology in Minsk. He graduated from the defense of a thesis devoted to the life and work of Eliza Orzeszkowa. After returning to Poland, he became a teacher of Russian, Belarusian and Latin at the high school in Michałów. In 1965, he was admitted to the second year of studies in Orthodox theology at the Christian Theological Academy in Warsaw. On 1 February 1970, he became the head of the office of the Metropolitan of Warsaw and of the whole of Poland. On 11 February 1970, Bazyli made his perpetual vows before the metropolitan of Warsaw and all of Poland. Four days later he was ordained a deacon, and on 22 February of the same year – as priest. On 21 September 1970, he was appointed inspector of the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Warsaw, where he was previously employed as a foreign language teacher and catechesis lecturer. A year later, he became the chairman of the Publishing and Press Commission at the Metropolitan Council and its secretary. In the period from 1971, as a representative of the PAKP or a member of its…Citește mai mult