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The Vilnius Period in the Lives of Priests Professors Czesław Falkowski and Ignacy Świrski
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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7487-9976Marek Przeniosło
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7387-8530Sara Kosno
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3645-6627Abstract
The protagonists of the article are professors of the Faculty of Theology at Stefan Batory University in Vilnius in the inter-war period. Vilnius was not the first place where the lives of the two priests crossed. It was St Petersburg and the Metropolitan Seminary, and later the local Theological Academy. Both joined the Polish Army in the early days of independence, during the period of fighting for the borders. Falkowski and Świrski were also given chairs in Vilnius in 1921, which they held until the university was liquidated in December 1939. They then found employment (until 1942) as professors at the still functioning Vilnius Theological Seminary. When the seminary was reopened in 1944, they continued to teach there. In 1945 they moved to Białystok, where the former Vilnius Faculty of Theology and the Vilnius Theological Seminary had been transferred. Soon after, they became bishops; Świrski in Siedlce and Falkowski in Łomża. There were more elements linking the two priests: they held important organizational functions in the USB (rector, dean), in the inter-war period they sympathised with the same political trend – the national camp. Both were also heavily involved in charity work (in Vilnius, but also later).
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professors of Stefan Batory University in Vilnius, polish bishops after 1945, Czesław Falkowski, Ignacy ŚwirskiDetails
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