Stanislaw Padewski
Polish priest (1932–2017)
Stanislaw Padewski, OFMCap (born 18 September 1932 – 29 January 2017) was a Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained to priesthood in 1957, Padewski served as auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi] from 1995 to 1998 and for the Archdiocese of Lviv from 1998 to 2002. He then served as bishop of the Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia from 2002 to 2009.
Life
Born in 1932 near Buczacz (then Tarnopol Voivodeship in eastern Poland, today Butschatsch, Ukraine), Padewski was forcibly resettled with his family in December 1945 to Nowe Miasteczko near Nowa Sól in western Poland. Padewski attended the lyceum in Nowa Sól for two years before entering the Capuchin convent in Sędziszów Małopolski in 1949, where he took the religious name Wenanty. After his first vows in 1950, he made his perpetual vows on September 19, 1953 in the Capuchin monastery in Kraków.
From 1952 to 1957, Stanisław Padewski studied philosophy and theology at the Higher Spiritual Seminary of the Capuchin Friars in Kraków. Padewski was ordained a priest on February 24, 1957 by the auxiliary bishop in Kraków, Stanisław Rospond. In 1957, he graduated from the Kochanowski Lyceum in Kraków. From 1957 to 1959 he was a catechist and parish vicar in the Capuchin parish in Bytom.
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