Author
Zygmunt Łoziński 1870-1932

He was born in Boracin, near Navahrudak, on the 5th of June, 1870. He began his education in Warsaw, to complete the Imperial Roman Catholic Theological Academy in Saint Petersburg and be ordained priest on the 23rd of June, 1895. Due to his involvement in pro-independence activities, he was sentenced to prison by the Russian authorities on the 17th of November, 1898, and locked up in a secluded convent in Aglona in Latvia. After the three years of internment he took up ministration in, among others, Smolensk, Riga, and Minsk, becoming, at the same time, a lecturer on Hebrew and biblical studies at the Saint Petersburg Theological Academy. He also continued his education in Rome and Jerusalem. During the First World War he was initially the chaplain of prisoners of war captured by the Russians, and on the 2nd of November, 1917, he was appointed Bishop of Minsk. He received episcopal ordination in Warsaw on the 23rd of July, 1918. He performed his duties only until December of the same year, as, following the capture of Minsk by the Red Army, he had to go into hiding. In 1920-1925 he was repeatedly arrested and imprisoned by the authorities of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. In the same period he was also awarded the Polish distinctions of the Order of the White Eagle, and Cross of Valour. On the 2nd of December, 1925, he was appointed the first ordinary of the newly established Diocese of Pinsk. After a long illness he died in Pinsk on the 26th of March, 1932. The most important works he left are his sermons, such as Chrześcijańska miłość ojczyzny i praca narodowa.

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