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    The archbishop of Kraków is the head of the archdiocese of Kraków. A bishop of Kraków first came into existence when the diocese was created in 1000;...
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    Królewskie Miasto Kraków, which can be translated as "Royal Capital City of Kraków". In English, a person born or living in Kraków is a Cracovian (Polish:...
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    the position of Archbishop of Kraków and then a cardinal, both positions held by his mentor. Wojtyła was elected pope on the third day of the second papal...
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    Kraków John Paul II International Airport (Polish: Kraków Airport im. Jana Pawła II since 4 September 2007; earlier in Polish: Międzynarodowy Port Lotniczy...
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    Sigismund's Chapel. It is the official seat of the Archbishop of Kraków and of the Archdiocese of Kraków. A symbol of Polish statehood and faith, the cathedral...
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    born 27 April 1939) is a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Metropolitan Archbishop of Kraków from 2005 until 2016. He was created a cardinal...
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    Adam Stefan Sapieha (category Archbishops of Kraków)
    prelate who served as Archbishop of Kraków from 1911 to 1951. A member of the Polish nobility, between 1922 and 1923 he was a senator of the Second Polish...
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    Marek Jędraszewski (category Archbishops of Kraków)
    who has served as Archbishop of Kraków since 2016. He served as Archbishop of Łódź from 2012 to 2017. He has also been vice president of the Polish Episcopal...
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    Franciszek Macharski (category Archbishops of Kraków)
    1927 – 2 August 2016) was a Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was appointed Archbishop of Kraków from 1978, named by Pope John Paul II to...
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  • The Kraków Uprising was a planned but never realized uprising of the Polish Resistance against the German occupation in the city of Kraków during World...
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    Sapieha (redirect from House of Sapieha)
    (1867–1951), cardinal, archbishop of Kraków Adam Zygmunt Sapieha (1892–1970), cavalryman, aviator Aleksander Michał Sapieha (1730–1793), voivode of Płock, Field...
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    ballots. The cardinal electors selected Cardinal Karol Józef Wojtyła, Archbishop of Kraków, as the new pope. The third pope in the year, Wojtyła accepted his...
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    Bishop of Kraków. Following his ordination, he was given a canonry in Kraków and became known for his preaching. He was subsequently made pastor of Czembocz...
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    Grzegorz Ryś (category Bishops of Kraków)
    has served as Archbishop of Łódź since 2017. He was previously an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Kraków and titular bishop of Arcavica from 2011...
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    favour of his brother Władysław. In 1337 it was acquired by Casimir I, Duke of Cieszyn, whose scion Wenceslaus I sold it to the Archbishop of Kraków in 1443...
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    the Azores Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport John Paul II International Airport Kraków–Balice Notes AIP Part 3 - AD 2 Aerodromes Archived 15 April 2012 at the...
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    Frederick Jagiellon (category Archbishops of Kraków)
    prince, Archbishop of Gniezno, Bishop of Kraków, and Primate of Poland. He was the sixth son and ninth child of Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland and...
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    lands and Kraków became part of the emerging state of Poland. In the year 1000, the Kraków diocese was established followed by the construction of a Cathedral...
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    Archbishop of Kraków Jan Odrowąż, Archbishop of Lwów Jan II Odrowąż of Sprowa, Archbishop of Gniezno Andrzej Odrowąż, Voivode of Podole, founder of the...
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    between teaching in Lublin and doing his pastoral work in Kraków. After he became archbishop of Kraków in 1963 and a cardinal in 1967, his duties limited the...
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  • (junior) was born on 18 May 1920 in Wadowice near the city of Kraków in southern Poland, the youngest of three children. His father was Karol Józef Wojtyła (senior)...
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    Eugeniusz Baziak (category Archbishops of Lviv)
    15 June 1962 in Warsaw, Poland) was Archbishop of Lviv and apostolic administrator of Kraków. Baziak was rector of the Clerical Seminarium in Lviv. Since...
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  • Cardinal Wyszyński – Primate of Poland who was highly instrumental in the 1978 papal election of Karol Wojtyła, Archbishop of Kraków, as Pope John Paul II Abdul...
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  • throne of Kraków under the basis of the agreement of mutual succession between him and Leszek I the White signed in 1217. Although the Duke of Kraków leave...
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    personal secretary for forty years and one of his closest friends and advisers, and became Archbishop of Kraków, John Paul's former post, and Cardinal. John...
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    Karol Wojtyła (senior) (category Polish people of the Polish–Soviet War)
    Jędraszewski, Archbishop of Kraków, announced the beginning of the process of beatification of Karol and Emilia Wojtyła; The process of beatification of John Paul...
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    suppression of the Solidarity labour movement in 1980s Poland. The KGB had forecast political instability consequent to the election of Archbishop of Kraków Karol...
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    During his tenure as Archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Law was accused of having mishandled cases of sexual abuse at the hands of diocesan priests. The...
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    Podgrodzie, Maciejowce, Twarożne. Wenceslaus I sold the Duchy of Siewierz to the Archbishop of Kraków, Zbigniew Cardinal Oleśnicki, for 6,000 silver groats in...
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    he was Cardinal Wojtyła, Archbishop of Kraków. Facing a shortage of priests and decreased Mass attendance, the Archdiocese of St. Louis announced in May...
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