Born: February 4, 1907 in Klebanowka, Russian partition of Poland (presently Ukraine)
Died: June 26, 2002 in Laski, Poland
Early days. Father Aleksander Mother- Zofia nee Krainska. Had eight siblings two of which also elected a consecrated life. He studied law and then theology at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lwow, Austrian partition of Poland (presently Lviv, Ukraine), where he befriended members of an academic Association Odrodzenie (resurrection): Szeptycki, Swiezawski snd Czartoryski. In 1929 he received Master degree. During 1930-1931 he served in the Squadron of Equestrian Artillery of the Military College.. From 1931 till 936 he studied in the seminary associated with the Department of Theology of The Jan Kazimerz University in Lwow.
Career. After obtaining holy orders in 1936 he became the pastor in Tarnopol and Lwow. Just before WWII he became the vicar of the Maria Magdalena parish in Lwow and also the director of the Paupers House of the City of Lwow. In April, 1940 he was arrested by tye NKVD and put into the Zamarstynow prison. He was released in June 1940. With the consent of the archbishop Boleslaw Twardowski he went voluntarily to Kazachstan together with thousands of deported Poles. He clandestinely exercized the pastoral duties Later he joined Anders’ Army but he withdrew from it when he learned than not all Poles can leave the Soviet Union. In 1943 he was arrested by NKVD and spent few months in the Semipalatinsk prison. In 1944 he returned to Poland as the chaplain of the 4 Division 1944. He then began to work at the Center for the Blind in Laski. During 1948-1958 he was also the confessor of the Lwow’s Seminary in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska. During his work in Laski he became an important spiritual authority for many among Warsaw’s cultural elite: Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Stefan Swiezawski, Jerzy Zawieyski, Stanislaw Stomma, Jerzy Turowicz, Bohdan Cywinski, Andrzej Wielowieyski and many others. Tadeusz Fedorowicz organized for them days of meditation and supported them spiritually in their oppositional actions against Polish People’s Republic. He became also the confessor of the Pope John II.
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