Mieczysław Mokrzycki

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The Most Reverend Mieczysław Mokrzycki
Archbishop of Lviv of the Latins
See	Lviv
Installed	21 October 2008
Predecessor	Marian Jaworski
Successor	incumbent
Other post(s)	Coadjutor Archbishop of Lviv of the Latins (2007–2008)
Orders
Ordination	17 September 1987 by Marian Jaworski
Consecration	29 September 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI
Personal details
Born	(1961-03-29) 29 March 1961 (age 60) , People's Republic of Poland
Nationality	Polish
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Alma mater	Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum
Motto	Humilitas (English: Humility)
Coat of arms

Mieczysław Mokrzycki is archbishop of Lviv. He was born on 29 March 1961 in , Poland.

Formation[]

Mokrzycki earned a Doctorate of Sacred Theology in 1996 from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum. His dissertation was entitled "La formazione sacerdotale nell'arcidiocesi di Leopoli dei Latini alla luce dei recenti documenti dopo il Concilio Vaticano II (Priestly Formation in the Archdiocese of Leopoldi de Latini in light of recent documents after Vatican II).".^[1] Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latins (Ukraine)^[2]

Career[]

On 16 July 2007 he was appointed coadjutor archbishop of Lviv, and consecrated on 29 September 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI (principal consecrator) and Cardinals Tarcisio Bertone and Marian Jaworski (co-consecrators). He was one of six new Bishops consecrated on that day, the first consecrated by Pope Benedict after his election as Pope. On 21 October 2008 he became Archbishop of Lviv of the Latins after the resignation of Cardinal Marian Jaworski. On 29 September 2007 Archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki was honoured by the president of Poland Lech Kaczyński with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, for outstanding services to the Polish Church, working for the Poles in Ukraine. He received the pallium from Pope Benedict in June 2009 at a traditional Mass marking the feast of the Solemnity of the Holy Apostles Saints Peter and Paul.

See also[]

• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv
• List of Roman Catholic bishops of Lviv

References[]

Sources[]

• http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmokr.html
• http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/lviv1.htm