Ignacy Jeż

Male, Deceased Person

1914 – 2007

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Who was Ignacy Jeż?

Ignacy Ludwik Jeż was the Latin Rite Catholic Bishop Emeritus of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg, located in Poland.

Bishop Jeż was born in the Polish town of Radomyśl Wielki on July 31, 1914. He was ordained a Catholic priest on June 20, 1937. In 1942 he was sent first to Niemców labour camp and then interned in Dachau concentration camp as prisoner no. 37196, where he met fellow priest Joseph Kentenich.

After the camp was liberated by the American forces in 1945, he returned to priesthood, and from 1946 until 1960 he was the director of a Catholic Gymnasium in Katowice.

On June 5, 1960, under Pope John XXIII, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński and future Cardinal Bolesław Kominek appointed him Titular Bishop of Alba Maritima. In 1967 he was elevated to Auxiliary Bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Wrocław. In 1972 he was appointed Bishop of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg, in northern Poland. He held this post until February 1, 1992, when, at the age of 77, his resignation request was accepted by Pope John Paul II.

Jeż died on October 16, 2007 in Rome, Italy, the day before the announcement that Pope Benedict XVI had planned to make him a cardinal.

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Born
Jul 31, 1914
Radomyśl Wielki
Religion
  • Catholicism
Nationality
  • Poland
Died
Oct 16, 2007
Vatican City

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on July 23, 2013

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