Sakry i sukcesja święceń biskupich pasterzy diecezji mińskiej, pińskiej i drohiczyńskiej
Episcopal Ordinations and Apostolic Succession of the Catholic Bishops of Mińsk, Pińsk and Drohiczyn

Summary/Abstract: The proposed article presents the whole issue of episcopal ordinations (consecrations) of former and present bishops of three historically related dioceses: Minsk (erected in 1798), Pinsk (erected in 1925) and Drohiczyn (erected in 1991), as well as the question of their apostolic succession – in its bearing concerning the bishops’ genealogies (lineages of succession of episcopal ordinations). In the first place are gathered fundamental informations in relation to the respective consecrations (date, place, principal consecrator, co-consecrators) and next each one bishop was assigned to the proper line (“family”) of succession. The group of hierarchs, who were taken into consideration in our present analysis, includes the following bishops: James Ignatius Dederko (1753-1829), John Baptist Masclet (1762-1835?), Matthew Meletius Lipski (1770-1839), Adam Wojtkiewicz (1796-1870), Sigmund Łozinski (1870-1932), Boleslaus Sloskans (1893-1981), Casimir Bukraba (1885-1946), Charles Niemira (1882-1965), Ladislas Jędruszuk (1918-1994), Thaddeus Kondrusiewicz (* 1946), Casimir Świątek (* 1914), John Chrapek (1948-2001), Anthony Pacific Dydycz (* 1938), Anthony Dziemianko (* 1960), Casimir Wielikosielec (* 1945) and Cyril Klimowicz (* 1952). All these deceased and living members of the Roman Catholic episcopate from the EastCentral Europe (Poland and Belarus) represent different branches of great family of apostolic succession (succession of episcopal ordinations), named “Rebibian family” (Roman line), including also the so-called former Polish line (“family of Rangoni/Gembicki”) – in fact only one of numerous branches of the above-mentioned Roman line.

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