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Początki i rozwój życia duchowego w Zbąszynku – parafia Kosieczyn w latach 1945-1956

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Ganecki J.

Adhibenda

2021

issue 8

23-66

The article focuses on the religious development in Zbąszynek after the end of World War II in 1945. The town was part of the Kosieczyn parish for 11 years, from 1945 to 28 June 28 1957. In those years, Zbąszynek was the place of residence of parish priests and it was here that the religious life of the Kosieczyn parish mainly developed. Rev. Jan Pipusz was the organizer of religious life after the war in these areas. He arrived in Kosieczyn on 16 April 1945 with 85 families from the former Tarnopol Province and 15 families from the Pidhaitsi district. He was a substitute curate appointed in these lands by the apostolic administration in Gorzów Wielkopolski and he made efforts to take over a closed and neglected Evangelical church for the people coming to Zbąszynek. After receiving the permits, on 21 October 1945, he consecrated the Evangelical church and thus transformed it into a Catholic church, which was dedicated to Motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In October 1945, Rev. Pipusz handed over the management of the Kosieczyn parish with the residence in Zbąszynek to Rev. Jan Wysocki, who performed these duties for one year. The great achievement of the new parish priest was the repair of the damaged roof on the church and the purchase of the statue of the Motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which still adorns the altar in the church in Zbąszynek. The „Caritas Kindergarten in Zbąszynek” was established at the church. On 1 December 1946, Rev. Jan Wysocki was transferred to Klenica, and the pastoral care of the Kosieczyn parish was taken over by Rev. Franciszek Wyszatycki. The greatest work of Rev. Wyszatycki during his pastoral ministry was the adaptation of the former Evangelical church in Zbąszynek to the rites of the Catholic faith and the regulations of this faith. The difficult task was to move the organ that was above the altar to the other side, i.e. to the choir located above the extension of the nave. The five-year pastoral service of Rev. Wyszatycki was a period of painstaking organization of religious life in the parish and the consolidation of parishioners who came from the East and central Polish lands. On 21 November 1951, the service in the Kosieczyn parish was again taken over by Rev. Jan Pipusz, whose term of office lasted until July 1956. The five-year period of pastoral work was not easy for Rev. Pipusz, because it was a time of growing conflicts between the people living in Zbąszynek and those who came from different parts of Poland. His most important priority was the spiritual development of the flock entrusted to him. After the departure of Rev. Jan Pipusz, the responsibilities of the Kosieczyn parish were taken over by Rev. Edmund Malich. It was during his term of office that a decision was made to establish an independent parish in Zbąszynek. On 28 June 1957, the Ordinary of the Gorzów Ordinariate, Bishop Teodor Bensch, established a Roman Catholic parish in Zbąszynek dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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Początki i rozwój życia duchowego w Zbąszynku – parafia Kosieczyn w latach 1945-1956