Józef Gawlina

Józef Feliks Gawlina, born in 1892 in Strzybnik (Racibórz County) in Silesia - died 1964 in Rome was a Divisional general in the Polish Armed Forces.

He was an ordained priest, Doctor of Theology and from 1933, Catholic bishop in the Military Ordinariate of Poland.

[1] After the Second World War, cardinal Hlond gave him the brief to provide pastoral care to the Polish diaspora.

In the words of Pope John Paul II, Gawlina was a "bishop - Nomad".

Following his death, the Secretary General of the Second Vatican Council described him as a "real pastor".