Czesław Sokolowski (July 9, 1877, in Warsaw[1] – November 11, 1951, in Michalin) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest, theologian, rector of the Catholic University of Lublin in 1924–1925, and at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Warsaw. He was auxiliary bishop of Siedlce from 1919 to 1940,[2] titular bishop of Pentacomia and apostolic administrator of the diocese of Siedlce in the years 1940–1946.[1] He was also considered to be a Nazi collaborator.
During World War II, he was one of 4 bishops considered collaborators for striking a deal with the Nazi occupation forces.[3][4] and he was sentenced to death by the Warsaw Area Special Military Court of the Polish Home Army. The verdict, however, was downgraded to a sentence of loss of civil rights and public reputation.[5][6]
References
edit- ^ a b Bishop Czesław Sokolowski, Catholicheirachy.org.
- ^ Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1919, Number 57.
- ^ Tadeusz Piotrowski, Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947 (McFarland, 1998) page 86.
- ^ Jan Bank, Lieve Gevers, Churches and Religion in the Second World War (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016)
- ^ Leszek Gondek: Punishing Poland 1939–1945. Polish underground justice system during the German occupation . Warsaw: Pax Publishing Institute, 1988. ISBN 83-211-0973-X .
- ^ R. Dmowski: Bishop Czeslaw Sokolowski - sketch for biography. In: R. Dmowski, J. Gmitruk, G. Kornec, W. Wlodarkiewicz (ed.): Army and culture in the history of Poland and Europe. Jubilee book of Professor Piotr Matusak on the 65th anniversary of his birth . Warsaw - Siedlce: 2006, pp. 326–336