Ks. Karol Milik – „wieczór życia” w Gorzowie Wlkp. (1957-1976)

• Authors: Jerzy Pietrzak

Abstracts

EN

Rev. Karol Milik was one of the Polish priests who rendered great service to Polish ecclesial life after the World War II on so-called Recovered Territories (post-German territories connected to Poland). He was an apostolic administrator of Lower Silesia in 1945-1951. Removed and deported outside the administration area by the communist authorities, he lived in the Convent of the Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus in Polska Wieś near Pobiedziska (near Poznań). In 1957, the Polish primate, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, sent him to Gorzów to assist the local bishop in the sacrament of Confirmation in the ordinariate of Gorzów (formerly the apostolic administration of Kamień, Lubusz and the prelate of Piła). The article focuses on Rev. Milik’s last period of life in Gorzów and is primarily based on the journal which he kept up to 1974 (so far unknown to historians). The paper presents Rev. Milik’s pastoral activity in the ordinariate of Gorzów, his relations with the bishop of Gorzów, and above all with Cardinal Wyszyński and Cardinal Bolesław Kominek, who was his successor in Wrocław. The work also assesses the situation of the Catholic Church in Poland ruled by the communist regime and the Episcopal’s standpoint (he was one of the best experts of communism and its convinced opponent). Rev. Milik was the only apostolic administrator appointed in 1945 on the Recovered Territories who was not a bishop, which was the result of accusations the Germans levelled at him in the Vatican City; they claimed that Rev. Milik, as a church ruler in Lower Silesia, was a Polish nationalist. The last period of his life, Rev. Milik devoted to being rehabilitated and anointed bishop. It was not until he died that he gained recognition. He was buried in the Wroclaw Cathedral and Archbishop Luigi Poggi, a papal delegate, presided over the funeral rites.

• Publisher: Agencja Wydawnicza “PDN”
• Journal: Adhibenda
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 53-82

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Jerzy Pietrzak

• Uniwersytet Wrocławski

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2027877