Tadeusz Gocłowski

Tadeusz Gocłowski, C.M. (16 September 1931 – 3 May 2016) was a Roman Catholic archbishop.

Ordained to the priesthood in 1956, Gocłowski served as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gdańsk, Poland, from 1983 to 1984. Then he served as bishop of the diocese from 1984 to 1992. In 1992, Gocłowski was elevated to archbishop serving until 2008. He took care for the usage of Kashubian language in liturgy.

Biography

Tadeusz Gocłowski was born on 16 September 1931 in Piski. From 1946 to 1951, he studied at the Minor Seminary of the Congregation of the Mission of Saint Vincent de Paul in Kraków. He passed his maturity exam externally at the King John III Sobieski 2nd High School. In October 1949, he was accepted into the Congregation of the Mission. He took perpetual vows on 15 December 1951. From 1951 to 1956, he pursued philosophical and theological studies at the Theological Institute of the Congregation of the Mission in Kraków. He was ordained a priest on 24 June 1956 in the Church of the Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle in Kraków by Stanisław Rospond, auxiliary bishop of Kraków. He continued his studies from 1956 to 1959 at the Faculty of Canon Law of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, earning a Licentiate of Sacred Theology. From 1969 to 1970, he studied at the Faculty of Canon Law of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome, where, in 1970, he obtained a doctorate based on his dissertation Post-Tridentine diocesan seminaries entrusted to the leadership of the Congregation of the Mission – particularly in Poland.