Józef Glemp
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| Cardinal, Archbishop emeritus of Warsaw | |
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| 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 |
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| Ordination | 25 May 1956 |
| Consecration | 21 April 1979 by Stefan Wyszyński |
| Created Cardinal | 2 February 1983 |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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18 December 1929 Inowrocław, Poznań Voivodeship, Poland |
| Died | 23 January 2013 (aged 83) Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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| 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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