{"id":16,"date":"2023-11-18T11:36:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T10:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pastoralcentre.pl\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2023-11-20T07:46:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T06:46:17","slug":"archbishop-of-wroclaw-jozef-kupny","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pastoralcentre.pl\/index.php\/archbishop-of-wroclaw-jozef-kupny\/","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop of Wroclaw: J\u00f3zef Kupny"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"176\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pastoralcentre.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Archbishop-Jozef-Kupny.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Archbishop J\u00f3zef Kupny<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Archbishop J\u00f3zef Kupny was born on 23 February 1956 in D\u0105br\u00f3wka Wielka. He entered the seminary in Krak\u00f3w in 1975, but his studies were very soon interrupted by compulsory military service, which lasted for two years. He was ordained priest on 31 March 1983 in Katowice and served as priest in parishes in the Katowice Diocese. In 1993, he received his doctorate degree in sociology from the Catholic University of Lublin and, in 1998, he became an assistant professor in the Department of Catholic Social doctrine at the Catholic University of Lublin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From 2001 to 2006, Fr J\u00f3zef Kupny was rector of the seminary in Katowice as well as serving as the Deputy Director of the General Department of Pastoral Care in the Metropolitan Curia in Katowice. In December 2005, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Fr J\u00f3zef to be an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Katowice and, in the following year, Katowice Archbishop Damian Zimo\u0144 appointed Bishop Kupny to be Vicar General of the Archdiocese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 18 May 2013, Pope Francis appointed Bishop J\u00f3zef to be the Archbishop of the Wroc\u0142aw Diocese, taking over for Archbishop Marian Go\u0142\u0119biewski, who had reached retirement age (75 years). Archbishop Marian was a bishop for seventeen years, first in Koszalin-Kolobrzeg from 1996, then since April 2004 as the Archbishop of Wroc\u0142aw. In 2012, Archbishop Marian celebrated the 50th anniversary of his priestly ordination. He was looking forward to retirement and more time for reading and traveling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"214\" height=\"249\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pastoralcentre.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Archbishop-Marian-Golebiewski.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Archbishop Marian Go\u0142\u0119biewski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Archbishop J\u00f3zef\u2019s ingress into the Cathedral of St John the Baptist was on 16 June 2013 at 15:00. The Archbishop\u2019s episcopal motto is \u201c<em>Chrystus nas umi\u0142owa\u0142<\/em>\u201d \u2014 \u201cChrist loved us\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us remember our Archbishop, J\u00f3zef Kupny, in our prayers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>God, eternal shepherd,<\/em><br><em>you tend your Church in many ways and rule us with love.<\/em><br><em>You have chosen your servant, J\u00f3zef, to be a shepherd of your flock.<\/em><br><em>Give him a spirit of courage and right judgment, a spirit of knowledge and love.<\/em><br><em>By governing with fidelity those entrusted to his care, may he build your Church as a sign of salvation for the world.<\/em><br><em>Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pastoralcentre.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Archbishop-Jozef-Kupny-coat-of-arms.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Episcopal Coat of Arms<br>Archbishop J\u00f3zef Kupny<br> \u201c<em>Chrystus nas umi\u0142owa\u0142<\/em>\u201d<br>\u201cChrist loved us\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishop J\u00f3zef Kupny was born on 23 February 1956 in D\u0105br\u00f3wka Wielka. He entered the seminary in Krak\u00f3w in 1975, but his studies were very soon interrupted by compulsory military service, which lasted for two years. He was ordained priest on 31 March 1983 in Katowice and served as priest in parishes in the Katowice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastoralcentre.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastoralcentre.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastoralcentre.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastoralcentre.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastoralcentre.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastoralcentre.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastoralcentre.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastoralcentre.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}