Antoni Naumczyk [SEP] place of death
Antoni Naumczyk
Antoni Naumczyk (born 1925 in Nashua, New Hampshire, died on April 2, 1969 near Zawoja), was a priest of the Polish Catholic Church, protonotary apostolic and general vicar, doctor of theology, and lecturer of the Christian Theology Academy in Warsaw.
Biography.
He was born in the United States. In 1929 he came with his parents to Poland and lived in Postawy. In 1945 in Vilnius he passed matura and ascended to Congregation of the Mission. From 1945 to 1950 he studied
Church. Naumczyk was typified as his successor, but he denied becoming a bishop, and so Julian Pękala became the bishop. At this time, Naumczyk was protonotary apostolic and vicar of the Polish Catholic Church. From 1965 he was amanuensis of Council and Presidium of Council of the Polish Catholic Church in the Polish People's Republic.
He was considered to be an éminence grise of the Polish Catholic Church from 1965 to 1969. He died with his family (Ewa, Irena and Jerzy Naumczyk) in the crash of an