Lata młodości i kapłaństwa oraz rodowód Teodora Kubiny
The youth and priesthood of Teodor Kubina

Summary/Abstract: Kubina Teodor Filip (1880–1951), pseudonyms: Dr K, Dr Rzymski, Dr Teodor Rzymski, Ks. dr Rzymski, Teodor Rzymski; Roman Catholic priest, social and national activist, first editor of “Gość Niedzielny”, first bishop of Częstochowa, organizer of the Catholic Action. He came from Swietochlowice, where he was born on 6th April 1880. In 1906 he was ordained a priest; in the years 1917–1925 he was a parish priest in the parish of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Katowice. Duringthe Polish-German conflict about Upper Silesia after the First World War, he was one of the leaders of the Polish side, which appointed him many times as a candidate for an administrator or director of the part of the Wroclaw diocese included in the Plebiscite. He was a member of the National Workers’ Party. In the years 1922–1925 he was one of the closest collaborators of Bishop August Hlond and an organizer of the newly created Silesian (Katowice) diocese. He was the first editor of “Gość Niedzielny” and an organizer of Silesian Catholic congresses. In 1925 he was appointed as the first bishop of Czestochowa.

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