Stanisław Wielgus
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His Excellency Stanisław Wielgus |
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| Archbishop Emeritus of Warsaw | |
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| Archdiocese | Warsaw |
| Province | Warsaw |
| Appointed | December 6. 2006 |
| Installed | January 5, 2007 |
| Term ended | January 6, 2007 |
| Predecessor | Józef Glemp |
| Successor | Kazimierz Nycz |
| Other posts | Titular Archbishop of Viminacium |
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| Ordination | June 10, 1962 by Piotr Kałwa |
| Consecration | August 1, 1999 by Józef Glemp |
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| Birth name | Stanisław Wojciech Wielgus |
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April 23, 1939 Wierzchowiska Drugie, Lublin Voivodeship |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Previous post | Płock |
| Alma mater | |
| Motto | Aeternae Sapientiae et Caritati (Eternal Wisdom and Love) |
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Styles of Stanisław Wielgus |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Monsignor |
| Posthumous style | n/a |
Stanisław Wojciech Wielgus (born 23 April 1939) is a former Roman Catholic archbishop of Warsaw. After his appointment to the position of archbishop by Pope Benedict XVI on 6 December 2006, he assumed the office in a private installation ceremony on 5 January 2007, only to resign two days later, less than an hour before his public installation ceremony, because of a scandal connected with his cooperation with the Służba Bezpieczeństwa, the Polish communist secret police.
Stanisław Wielgus was born in Wierzchowiska, in what is today Lublin Region. At the age of 23 he was ordained a priest on 10 June 1962 by Bishop Piotr Kałwa. An expert in Polish philosophy and medieval philosophy, he spent thirty years teaching in the faculty of philosophy of the Catholic University of Lublin, serving three terms as rector. He taught at the University of Munich, from 1973 to 1975 and again in 1978, where Professor Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, was teaching as an associate. From 1990 to 1993 he was the vice-chairman of the Conference of Rectors of Polish Universities. He served as a member and consultant on the Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education, and a member of the Humanities section of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Wielgus was appointed Bishop of Płock on 24 May 1999 by Pope John Paul II, and was consecrated by Cardinal Józef Glemp on 1 August of that year. He was Bishop of Płock from 1 August 1999 until 2006, when he was named Archbishop of Warsaw by Benedict XVI on 6 December 2006.
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