Archbishop Adrian Galbas took over the Warsaw Archdiocese

pch24.pl 6 months ago

On Saturday there was a canonical embrace of the capital archdiocese by Archbishop Adrian Galbas SAC. His solemn ingres to the archaeology was followed by St John the Baptist.

During the liturgy, the Apostolic Nuncio in Poland Archbishop Antonio Guido Filipazi gave the fresh Archbishop of Warsaw pastor as a sign of pastoral power. As a sign of the regulation of Archbishop Galbas, he sat at the Cathedral of the Archbishops of Warsaw and celebrated Mass.

The expression of devotion and respect, the alleged homagium, was presented to him by representatives of all the states of the Church: 3 auxiliary bishops, 3 priests, 4 consecrated people and representatives of the lay.

– Welcome home, to the Particle Church of our capital – said Bishop Piotr Jarecki to the fresh shepherd. He wished that the Warsaw Church, led by Archbishop Galbas, would “be more and more missionary”; “that there would be a household atmosphere in this house, so that no 1 would be especially preferred or overlooked”. He wished to “conduct the Church in the kind of Christ.”

– I come to Warsaw as a pastor – declared in the ingress homily the fresh metropolitan of Warsaw. – I'm not a politician, a businessman or a player. I'm besides not a wizard, a miracle individual and a genius. If you have specified hopes in me, you will be disappointed. said Archbishop Galbas. He added that he would like to go along with the clergy and lay believers—synodically, “hopeful that you, brothers and sisters, clergy and laymen, will sometimes lift me up, sometimes sustain me, sometimes show the direction, sometimes reprove, but never overturn.”

Hierarch said Christianity is “involved in this planet present and powerfully present in it.” – Christianity trapped only in home caresses or in church crumbs; inactive, “cut off” and passive, would be a betrayed Christianity He said.

He stressed that "The Church cannot be completely permeated by earthly affairs," but besides stressed that "it cannot escape entirely from them."

Referring to Elijah’s Biblical figure, the prophet constantly “had to face the spiritual mediocrity of the people, as well as the power and its mechanisms.” – Jezebel hated the prophet and was besides afraid of him. She knew that the full – no substance how strong – apparatus of state power based on lies could not defeat 1 man who was telling the truth. He can kill him, but he can't win. said the preacher.

Archbishop Galbas stressed that “the church is to be like Elijah, like fire, but not specified a fire that destroys and kills, but which brings light and warmth, illuminates and warms up.”

– I would like those who are unbelievers, unbelievers or believers to feel welcome by the bishop of Warsaw. besides those who flee the Church, like 2 disciples going to Emmaus. People disappointed in the Church, disappointed with it, people who no longer have any hope, hurt and excluded from the Church. People who expected and did not receive. People who leave the Church in search of God, claiming that “there is no more God in the Church” said the Warsaw metropolitan.

Referring to the words of St John Paul II that “man is the way of the Church”, Archbishop Galbas said that “every man the Church is to find, to everyone to want to reach, to meet each”.

He stated that he would like the Church in Warsaw and around it to have a proposal for everyone.

– Not to be afraid of being the Church of "various speeds," but to be no enemy to anyone. And let no 1 treat the Church like an enemy, like cancer, a malignant growth on the tissue of the modern Polish society, a growth that needs to be destroyed, or like nothing that can be ignored said Archbishop Galbas. He stressed that “The church is not a bastard, a smart-ass, a thief or a liar.”

He besides asked priests to take obedience to the Church and the Bishop seriously. – But not a cool obedience based on fear, but a father-son relationship – explained. He added that he would like to be “the father of adult men – individual who gives support but does not work in reasoning and acting.”

– Let us live uprightly, uprightly, and piously He appealed to the priests of the Warsaw metropolitan.

The Metropolitan invited all those surviving and working in the Warsaw Archdiocese, besides representatives of authorities “in Ujazdowski Avenues, Krakowskie Przedmieście, Wiejska Street or Bank Square” – to a common road.

– Either there's a common road, or there's a common place, or everyone goes their separate way, sometimes even the opposite. He said. – Better to be a pilgrim of hope, walking among another pilgrims of hope, than to go alone. And the worst part is being a drifter of despair. – he added.

– Now let's just be sisters and brothers to each other. “The fresh pastor of the Warsaw Archdiocese encouraged the faithful and the clergy.

Several twelve members of the Polish Episcopal Conference and respective 100 priests, consecrated people and representatives of movements, communities and associations participated in the ingress. There were besides representatives of non-Catholic spiritual unions.

Archbishop Adrian Józef Galbas is 56 years old. He was born on 26 January 1968 in Bytom. He's a pallotin. He joined the Catholic Apostolic Society of the Pallotine Priests in 1987, where he made perpetual vows on 8 September 1993 in Zakopane, and accepted priestly ordination on 7 May 1994 in Olsztyn.

Pope Francis appointed him as the Auxiliary Bishop of the Ełck diocese with the titular capital of Naisso on 12 December 2019. The celebrations were accepted by the bishop on 11 January 2020 at St. Wojciech Cathedral in Ełk. On 4 December 2021, the Pope mines him as a co-heitor of the Archdiocese of Katowice. The Katowice Metropolitan was appointed on 31 May 2023. On 4 November 2024, the apostolic nunciature in Poland informed that Pope Francis had accepted the resignation of the cardinals. Kazimierz Nycz from the service of the Archbishop of Warsaw Metropolitan and appointed Archbishop Adrian Józef Galbas as his current metropolitan.