Word: hlond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...church quickly recovered strength. By 1948, the Communists decided to move in and take over. They were just beginning to bring pressure on the nation's youth when Bishop Wyszynski was appointed archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw, and hence Primate of Poland to succeed the late Cardinal Hlond. In his first sermon in Warsaw's baroque Church of the Carmelite, Wyszynski declared: "I am neither a politician nor a diplomat. I am your spiritual father, your shepherd, bishop of your souls...
More speculative was the question of what the Pope would do about the lands behind the Iron Curtain, where two cardinals have died (Poland's Hlond in 1948 and Berlin's von Preysing last month), and many a prominent priest and prelate has been imprisoned (e.g., Hungary's Cardinal Mindszenty, Yugoslavia's Archbishop Stepinac...