Bogdan Józef Wojtuś

Bogdan Józef Wojtuś [1] (born on July 4, 1937 in Łąsko Wielkie ) is a Polish Roman Catholic clergyman, auxiliary bishop of Gniezno in 1988-2012, and from 2012 a senior bishop of the archdiocese of Gniezno.

Bogdan Józef Wojtuś.

Biography

He was born on July 4, 1937 in Łąsko Wielki.[2] He graduated from high school in Sępólno Krajeński.[3] As priest, he was ordained on May 20, 1961 in Gniezno by Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, the Primate of Poland.

From 1964, he was a specialist in the field of moral theology at the Catholic University of Lublin. There, in 1968, he obtained a master's degree, and in 1972 a doctorate on the basis of a dissertation entitled Deontologia employees of social media according to Inter mirifica.

Pope John Paul II appointed him Titular Bishop of Vassinassa on November 17, 1993, and Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno. His episcopal consecration was granted by the Archbishop of Warsaw and Gniezno, Cardinal Józef Glemp and Co-consecrators were the auxiliary bishops in Gniezno, Jan Czerniak and Jan Wiktor Nowak. As a motto he chose Evangelizare pauperibus.

On September 15, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI accepted his resignation request made for reasons of age.[4]

References
  1. Bogdan Wojtuś on catholic-hierarchy.org.
  2. Bishop Bogdan Wojtuś is retiring.
  3. Bogdan Józef Wojtuś.
  4. Pope accepted the resignation of Bishop Bogdana Wojtusia .
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