Józef Sebastian Pelczar
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Saint Bishop Józef Sebastian Pelczar |
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| Bishop of Przemyśl | |
c. 1920.
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| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Diocese | Przemyśl |
| See | Przemyśl |
| Appointed | 17 December 1900 |
| Term ended | 28 March 1924 |
| Predecessor | Łukasz Solecki |
| Successor | Anatol Wincenty Nowak |
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| Ordination | 17 July 1864 |
| Consecration | 19 March 1899 by Łukasz Solecki |
| Rank | Bishop |
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| Birth name | Józef Sebastian Pelczar |
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17 January 1842 Korczyna, Podkarpackie, Congress Poland |
| Died | 28 March 1924 (aged 82) Przemyśl, Podkarpackie, Second Polish Republic |
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| Sainthood | |
| Feast day | 19 January |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 2 June 1991 Rzeszów, Poland by Pope John Paul II |
| Canonized | 18 May 2003 Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II |
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Saint Józef Sebastian Pelczar (17 January 1842 – 28 March 1924) was a Polish Roman Catholic bishop and was also the co-founder of the Sister Servants of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus which he had established in 1894 with Ludwika Szczęsna. He also served in several episcopal posts and served as the Bishop of Przemyśl.
Pope John Paul II - on his fourth visit to Poland - beatified Pelczar in 1991 and presided over the canonization in 2003.
Józef Sebastian Pelczar was born in Poland in 1842 to Adalbert and Marianna Mięsowicz. As a child he felt a strong calling to serve God and so once wrote in his journal: "Earthly ideals are fading away. I see the ideal of life in sacrifice, and the ideal of sacrifice in priesthood".
He studied in Rzeszow and then commenced his studies for the priesthood in Przemyśl in 1860. At the age of sixteen he became a member of the Saint Vincent de Paul Society and of the organization known as Popular Education. After the completion of his studies he was ordained as a priest on 17 July 1864. He was assigned to be a parish priest at Sambor. He was later transferred to Rome in 1866 for further studies and he studied at the Institute of Saint Apollinaris and at the Collegium Romanum. He gained a doctorate in both theological studies and in canon law. He also served as a professor from 1869 to 1877 and served in that role in both Przemyśl and Krakow from 1882 to 1883.
Pelczar established several libraries and he delivered free lectures and published countless books. He would write on historical topics as well as on canon law. He started a school for those who were servants. He founded the Fraternity of Our Lady, Queen of the Polish Crown in 1891 with the objective of caring for the poor and for orphans as well as for the sick and those who had no job. While in Krakow in 1893 he met Ludwika Szczęsna and the two established the Sister Servants of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus on 15 April 1894 with the aim of working with women.
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