The Episcopal Ministry of Reverend Kazimierz Świątek (1914-2011)
The Episcopal Ministry of Reverend Kazimierz Świątek (1914-2011)

Summary/Abstract: This article details the pastoral ministry of Archbishop Kazimierz Świątek, who witnessed to Christ in Belarus as priest for fifty-two years and as an archbishop and cardinal for almost twenty years. After Soviet oppression in Belarus ceased and when Archbishop Kazimierz Świątek became canonically responsible for the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mińsk-Mohilev and the Diocese of Pińsk, the institutional Church and faith of the people barely existed in these locations. By the time Archbishop Świątek retired from his episcopal ministry, however, the ecclesiastical province had all the institutions necessary to function normally, and the churches were filled with the faithful. Given the exponential growth of the faithful and institutional Church under Archbishop,Świątek’s care, his pastoral ministry as a bishop merits particular attention and Archbishop Świątek himself deserves to be included among the long list of zealous bishops of the Church of Christ. Fr. Świątek’s earlier ministry as a priest has been analyzed in a previous article

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