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...Interrex. When Wyszynski talked, Poland listened-for reasons that are historical, political and personal...
...princess, took himself and country to the Church of Rome in 966. The office of primate, which in many countries degenerated into a mere courtesy title, remained in Poland (as in Hungary) a potent center of temporal power and political leverage. When the throne was vacant, the primate was "interrex"(interim King), and when in 1772 Poland suffered the first of many partitions at the hands of Russia, Austria and Prussia, the Poles looked to the primate as their temporal and spiritual head. As Primate of Poland, Wyszynski speaks with a prestige and importance fashioned by Poland's past...
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