Józef Gawlina, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Józef Gawlina

Polish officer

Date of Birth: 18-Nov-1892

Place of Birth: Strzybnik, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 21-Sep-1964

Profession: military officer, Catholic priest

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Józef Feliks Gawlina, born in 1892 in Strzybnik (Racibórz County) in Silesia - died 1964 in Rome was a Divisional general in the Polish Armed Forces.
He was an ordained priest, Doctor of Theology and from 1933, Catholic bishop in the Military Ordinariate of Poland.
After the Second world war, cardinal Hlond gave him the brief to provide pastoral care to the Polish diaspora.
In the words of Pope John Paul II, Gawlina was a "bishop - Nomad".
He was raised to the rank of Archbishop in 1957.
Following his death, the Secretary General of the Second Vatican Council described him as a "real pastor".