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His Excellency Eugeniusz Baziak | |||||||||||||||||
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| Archbishop of Lwów Apostolic Administrator of Kraków | |||||||||||||||||
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| Appointed | 22 November 1945 | ||||||||||||||||
| Installed | 22 November 1945 | ||||||||||||||||
| Term ended | 15 June 1962 | ||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Bolesław Twardowski | ||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Marian Jaworski | ||||||||||||||||
| Previous posts | Auxiliary Bishop of Lwów(1933 - 1944) Titular Bishop of Phocaea(1933 - 1944) Coadjutor Archbishop of Lwów(1944 - 1945) Titular Archbishop of Parium(1944 - 1945) Apostolic Administrator of Kraków(1951 - 1962) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Ordination | 14 July 1912 by Wladyslaw Bandurski [pl] | ||||||||||||||||
| Consecration | 5 November 1933 by Bolesław Twardowski | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Eugeniusz Baziak (1890-03-08)8 March 1890 | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | 15 June 1962(1962-06-15) (aged 72) | ||||||||||||||||
| Denomination | Roman Catholic | ||||||||||||||||
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Eugeniusz Baziak (Polish pronunciation:[ɛwˈɡɛɲuʐˈbaʑak]; 8 March 1890 inTarnopol – 15 June 1962 inWarsaw,Poland) wasArchbishop ofLwów and apostolic administrator ofKraków.[1] Baziak was rector of the Clerical Seminarium in Lwów. Since 1933 he was an auxiliary bishop and, since 1944, Archbishop of Lwów. In 1951, after the death ofCardinalAdam Stefan Sapieha, he became the apostolic administrator of the archdiocese inKraków.
In his capacity as apostolic administrator of Kraków, he recommended to Pope Pius XII the promotion ofKarol Wojtyła (the future Pope John Paul II), who was then a priest in the Archdiocese of Kraków, to the office ofauxiliary bishop of that archdiocese. It is said that this recommendation was made in so strong terms that the Holy See made the appointment without even consulting with the Primate of Poland,Stefan Wyszyński, as was usual. Instead, Wyszyński received notice from the Vatican that he was simply to inform Wojtyła of the appointment, and ask him for his acceptance.
After Wojtyła accepted and the appointment was formalized by the Pope, it fell to Baziak to be the principal consecrator, Bishops Kominek and Jop being co-consecrators, of Wojtyła as a bishop, the episcopal consecration occurring in September 1958. Wojtyła would eventually succeed Baziak at Kraków after Baziak's death.
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| Preceded by | Archbishop of Lwów 1944–1962 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by Adam Stefan Sapieha Archbishop of Kraków | Apostolic Administrator of theArchdiocese of Kraków 1951–1962 | Succeeded by Karol Wojtyła Archbishop of Kraków |
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