Word: zuzela
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impoverished nobleman who worked as a village schoolteacher and parish organist, Wyszynski was born in 1901 in the northeastern village of Zuzela and was ordained in 1924. He later wrote extensively on labor and rural problems and earned the affectionate nickname of the "worker priest." Active in the anti-Nazi resistance as an underground army chaplain in World War II, he was consecrated as the Bishop of Lublin in 1946. Two and a half years later, Pope Pius XII named him Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw, an appointment that also made Wyszynski, at 47, the Primate of Poland-leader...
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