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Józef Cardinal Glemp

His Eminence
Józef Glemp
Cardinal, Archbishop emeritus of Warsaw
Cardinal Józef Glemp
Archdiocese Warsaw
See Warsaw
Appointed 7 July 1981
Installed 25 September 1981
Term ended 6 December 2006
Predecessor Stefan Wyszyński
Successor Stanisław Wielgus
Other posts Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Orders
Ordination 25 May 1956
Consecration 21 April 1979
by Stefan Wyszyński
Created Cardinal 2 February 1983
Rank Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born (1929-12-18)18 December 1929
Inowrocław, Poznań Voivodeship, Poland
Died 23 January 2013(2013-01-23) (aged 83)
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Nationality Polish
Denomination Roman Catholic
Previous post
  • Bishop of Warmia (1979–1981)
  • Archbishop of Gniezno (1981–1992)
  • Ordinary of the Ordinariate for the Faithful of the Eastern Rites in Poland (1981–2007)
  • Apostolic Administrator of Warsaw (2007)
Motto
  • Caritati in iustitia
  • (Love in justice)
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Reference style His Eminence
Spoken style Your Eminence
Informal style Cardinal
See Warsaw (emeritus)

Józef Glemp (18 December 1929 – 23 January 2013) was a Polish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Warsaw from 1981 to 2006, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1983.

Józef Glemp was born in Inowrocław on 18 December 1929 as a son of Kazimierz Glemp and Salomea Kośmicka, and was baptized the same day. His father had participated in the Greater Poland Uprising from 1918 to 1919. Józef studied at the seminaries of Gniezno and Poznań, but his education was interrupted by the World War II; he and his siblings were slave laborers during the Nazi occupation of Poland. Glemp was ordained to the priesthood on 25 May 1956 by Bishop Franciszek Jedwabski. Glemp was of German descent on his father's side. On a visit to Scotland, he claimed Scottish descent on his mother's side.

After two years of pastoral service in Poznań, Glemp was sent to Rome in 1958 to study canon law at the Pontifical Lateran University, earning his doctorate in utroque iure in 1964, with a thesis on: De evolutione conceptus fictionis iuris. After his practicum he was given the title of Advocate of the Roman Rota. He attended a course in stylistic Latin at the Pontifical Gregorian University and also finished his studies in ecclesial administration.

In 1964, Glemp completed all of his studies in Rome and returned to Gniezno in Poland. He became chaplain of the Dominican and Franciscan Sisters and teacher of religion in the house for delinquent minors. He worked as Secretary of the Seminary of Gniezno and as notary for the Curia and the metropolitan tribunal and also as defender of the bond.


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