Kazimierz Świątek
His Eminence Kazimierz Świątek | |
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| Spoken style | Your Eminence | |
| Informal style | Cardinal | |
| See | Pinsk (emeritus) | |
Kazimierz Cardinal Świątek (
Świątek was born to
The
In 1988, he was made a
In July 2006, Świątek, then aged 91, his resignation for reasons of age and declining health from the offices of Metropolitan Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev was accepted by Pope Benedict XVI, but he remained Apostolic Administrator of Pinsk until 30 June 2011, when Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, his successor as Metropolitan Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev, replaced him also as Apostolic Administrator of Pinsk.
Death
On 21 July 2011, Świątek died in Pinsk after a long illness, aged 96. At the time of his death, he was the second oldest member of the College of Cardinals. Pope Benedict XVI sent a telegram to Archbishop Kondrusiewicz and the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Belarus expressing his condolences for the Cardinal's death and praising him for his lengthy service as Cardinal Archbishop and his continuing fidelity and loyalty to the Church and to Christ during his periods of imprisonment back in the early years of the Cold War, in the post-war period, when the Church in the Soviet Union had to be largely clandestine. [citation needed]
References
- ^ "Notice of death of Kazimierz Cardinal Świątek (in Polish)". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
- ^ a b "Profile of Cardinal Świątek". Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
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