Mieczysław Mokrzycki

Mieczysław Mokrzycki
Most Rev. Mieczysław Mokrzycki
Archbishop of Lviv of the Latins
Enthroned 2008
Reign ended present
Predecessor Marian Jaworski
Orders
Ordination September 17, 1989
Consecration July 16, 2007
Personal details
Born March 29, 1965
Majdan Łukawiecki

Mieczysław Mokrzycki (born March 29, 1961 in Majdan Łukawiecki) is Archbishop of Lviv of the Latins in the Roman Catholic Church.

Mokrzycki studied theology at the Catholic University of Lublin and was ordained September 17, 1989 at the hands of Bishop Marian Jaworski. In 1991 he undertook pastoral work in Ukraine. In 1996, he earned a doctorate at the Angelicum University of Rome. He worked as parochial vicar, secretary to the bishop, and as an official in the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. In 1996, he became personal secretary to Pope John Paul II[1] and after his death in 2005, he became secretary to Pope Benedict XVI.

July 16, 2007 was appointed coadjutor archbishop of Lviv. September 29, 2007 he was ordained bishop by Pope Benedict XVI (principal consecrator) and Cardinals Tarcisio Bertone and Marian Jaworski (co-consecrators). He was one of six new Bishops that were consecrated on that day, the first to be ordained by Pope Benedict after his election as Pope.

October 21, 2008 he became Archbishop of Lviv of the Latins after the resignation of Cardinal Marian Jaworski.

September 29, 2007 Archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki was honoured by the president of Poland Lech Kaczyński with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, for outstanding services to the Polish Church, working for the Poles in Ukraine.

He will receive the pallium from Pope Benedict in June 2009 at a traditional Mass marking the feast of the Solemnity of the Holy Apostles Saints Peter and Paul. There is a chance, that like Jaworski his predecessor, he could be named a Cardinal in a consistory in the near future.

References

  1. ^ Sciolino, Elaine (April 3, 2005). "Pope's Final Hours Described as Serene". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/international/europe/03cnd-deathbed.html?hp&ex=1112587200&en=862c8884a9cbbd9a&ei=5094&partner=homepage. Retrieved December 23, 2010. 

See also

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Marian Jaworski		 Archbishop of Lviv
from 2008		 Succeeded by
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