He was consecrated on June 13, 1968, by Cardinal John Cody in the Sacred Heart Chapel at Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary South in Chicago.
[4] In 1969, Abramowicz arranged the details for the visit of Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, later Pope John Paul II, to the United States.
[2] Abramowicz worked with the pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews and the Polish National Catholic Church, an independent congregation in the United States.
[2] He served as judge during the beatification processes for When Abramowicz turned age 75, he submitted his letter of resignation as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago to Pope Paul II.
The plaintiff claimed that he was sexually abused on several occasions as a teenager by Czeslaw Przybylo, a priest at Five Holy Martyrs Parish in Chicago during the late 1980s and early 1990s.