August Hlond
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His Eminence August Hlond Servant of God |
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| Cardinal, Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw Primate of Poland |
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Hlond c. 1938.
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| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Gniezno & Warsaw |
| Installed | 1926 |
| Term ended | 1948 |
| Predecessor | Edmund Dalbor |
| Successor | Stefan Wyszyński |
| Other posts | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace (1927-1948) |
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| Ordination | September 23, 1905 by Anatol Wincenty Novak |
| Consecration | January 3, 1926 by Aleksander Kakowski |
| Created Cardinal | January 20, 1927 by Pope Pius XI |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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| Birth name | August Hlond |
| Born | July 5, 1881 Brzęczkowice (now Mysłowice) |
| Died | October 22, 1948 (aged 67) Warszawa |
| Buried | St. John's Cathedral, Warsaw |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic Church |
| Residence | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Warsaw |
| Parents | Jan Hlond & Maria Hlond |
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| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Title as Saint | Servant of God |
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | Poznań, Gniezno and Warsaw |
August Hlond (July 5, 1881 – October 22, 1948) was a Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, who was Archbishop of Poznań and Gniezno in 1926 and primate (highest ranking church official) in Poland. He was then appointed as the Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw in 1946.
He was the only member of the Sacred College of Cardinals to be arrested and taken into custody by the Gestapo during World War II, and for the final years of his life was a critic of the Soviet backed Communist regime in Poland.
His cause of canonization commenced in 1992 and he has been granted the posthumous title of Servant of God.
Second son of a railway worker, he was born in the Upper Silesian village Brzęczkowice (German: Brzenskowitz), then ruled by Germany, now part of Mysłowice (German: Myslowitz), on 5 July 1881. At twelve-years-of-age, Hlond went to Turin, Italy to study for the priesthood in the Salesian Congregation. He later studied a doctorate of philosophy in Rome, returned to Poland to complete Theology, and was ordained in Cracow in 1905.
In 1909 Hlond was sent to Vienna to be headmaster at a boy's secondary school. He remained in the city for 13 years, and working with spiritual and charitable organisations for Poles, and becoming Provincial of the Salesians for Austria, Hungary and Germany in 1919. Following the break up of Austria-Hungary after World War I, Pope Pius XI appointed Hlond as Apostolic Administrator for Polish Upper Silesia in 1922, and Hlond became the first Bishop of the Diocese of Katowice in 1925.
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