The Appointment of Bishop Stefan Wyszyński as Primate of Poland – in Light of New Archival Sources

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https://doi.org/10.12775/DN.2025.3.05

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Stefan Wyszyński, August Hlond, Antoni Baraniak, Holy See, Archdiocese of Gniezno, Archdiocese of Warsaw, Primate of Poland

Abstract

The aim of this article is to reconstruct the course of events related to the appointment of Bishop Stefan Wyszyński as Primate of Poland in 1948. The source material for this text consists primarily of little-known archival documents found in the Historical Archives of the Secretariat of State in the Vatican, supplemented by archival materials from the Archdiocesan Archives in Gniezno. The article describes the chronology and the course of events related to the appointment of the new Primate of Poland, who then led the Church in Poland for almost 33 years. At the same time (using studies that were available), it attempts to organise the existing knowledge on this subject.

Author Biography

Albert Warso, Szkoła Główna Mikołaja Kopernika w Warszawie

Mons. Albert Warso – priest of the Diocese of Radom, Doctor of Humanities in History, graduate of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Lecturer at the Nicolaus Copernicus Superior School in Warsaw and at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. His research interests include the history of the Church in Poland in the 19th and 20th centuries, Church–State relations in Poland after World War II, and ecclesiastical biographical studies. E-mail: awarso@sgmk.edu.pl.

References

Źródła archiwalne

Archiwum Archidiecezjalne w Gnieźnie

Acta Hlondiana

Archivio Storico della Segreteria di Stato – Sezione per i Rapporti con gli Stati e le Organizzazioni Internazionali

Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari, Pio XII, parte I, Polonia;

Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari, Pio XII, parte II, Polonia

Źródła drukowane

Circa proponendos ad episcopale ministerium pro dioecesibus ritus latini in Polonia, „Acta Apostolicae Sedis” 1921, nr 11, s. 430–432.

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Opracowania

Czaczkowska E., „Jestem człowiekiem tak marnego stanu…” Okoliczności nominacji bp. Stefana Wyszyńskiego na prymasa Polski, „Studia Prymasowskie” 2024, t. IX, s. 33–46.

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Pietrzak J., Episkopat Polski i nominacja nowego prymasa Polski Stefana Wyszyńskiego, w: Prymas Stefan Wyszyński i Episkopat Polski, red. R. Łatka, D. Zamiatała, Warszawa 2023, s. 11–31.

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2025-12-23

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WARSO, Albert. The Appointment of Bishop Stefan Wyszyński as Primate of Poland – in Light of New Archival Sources. Dzieje Najnowsze. Online. 23 December 2025. Vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 101-122. [Accessed 24 December 2025]. DOI 10.12775/DN.2025.3.05.

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Vol. 57 No. 3 (2025)

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Studia i artykuły

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