List of bishops of the Polish National Catholic Church

This is a list of bishops of the Polish National Catholic Church (PNCC), with links to the bishops who consecrated them. Despite its name, the Polish National Catholic Church is located in the US. The PNCC is not in communion with the Catholic Church. The PNCC was founded in 1897 in Pennsylvania, by Franciszek Hodur who was also the PNCC's first bishop.

The number references the sequence of consecration. "Diocese" refers to the diocese over which the bishop presided or, if he did not preside, the diocese in which he served as coadjutor bishop or auxiliary bishop. The ordinal before the diocese name represents where in the sequence that bishop falls; e.g., the fourth bishop of the Central Diocese is written "4th Central". Where a diocese is in bold type, it indicates that the bishop is the current bishop of that diocese. The consecrator listed first represents the principal consecrator.

Chart of episcopal succession

No.Name of bishopConsecratorsDate of consecrationInstallation as bishopEnd of tenureDiocese1Franciszek Hodur*Gerardus GulSeptember 29, 1907190419531st Prime Bishop190719491st Central2Leon Grochowski*Francis HodurAugust 17, 1924195319682nd Prime BishopNovember 1954July 17, 19693rd Central192619551st Western3Francis BonczakFrancis HodurAugust 17, 1924August 17, 192419281st Polish4Valentine GawrychowskiFrancis HodurAugust 17, 1924Swiderski, Gregory. “Polish-American Polish National Catholic Bishops.” Polish American Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, 1967, pp. 35–38. JSTOR, . Accessed 22 Mar. 2023.1925February 1, 19341st Eastern5John GritenasFrancis HodurAugust 17, 1924August 17, 1924December 28, 19281st Bishop of the Lithuanian National Catholic Church6John Zenon JasinskiFrancis HodurValentine GawrychowskiLeon GrochowskiJune 7, 1928June 7, 1928April 28, 19511st Buffalo-Pittsburgh7Władysław FaronFrancis HodurLeon GrochowskiJohn Zenon JasinskiJanuary 30, 19301929September 2, 1931Tadeusz and Jerzy Piątek, Religions of the World – Old Catholicism, Warsaw 1987, p. 121.2nd Polish8John MisiaszekFranciszek HodurLeon GrochowskiJohn Zenon JasinskiAugust 26, 19361949November 19542nd Central9Józef PadewskiFrancis HodurAugust 26, 1936August 26, 1936May 10, 19513rd Polish10Joseph LesniakFranciszek HodurLeon GrochowskiJohn Zenon JasinskiJohn MisiaszekNovember 16, 1937November 16, 1937September 19532nd EasternJune 3, 1951September 19532nd Buffalo-Pittsburgh11Joseph SoltysiakLeon GrochowskiFrancis BonczakJoseph LesniakJohn MisiaszekG. Ashton Oldham(Episcopal Diocese of Albany)April 23, 19521951July 9, 19733rd Eastern12Thaddeus F. Zielinski*Leon GrochowskiJoseph LesniakJoseph SoltysiakJohn MisiaszekSeptember 2, 1954 September 2, 195419693rd Buffalo-Pittsburgh196919783rd Prime Bishop13Joseph KardasLeon GrochowskiSeptember 2, 19541955July 8, 19582nd Western14Francis Carl Rowinski*Leon GrochowskiMay 9, 1959195919783rd WesternOctober 3, 197819905th Buffalo-PittsburghOctober 3, 197819854th Prime Bishop15Eugene MagyarLeon GrochowskiJune 29, 1963June 29, 1963October 19, 19681st Bishop of the Slovak National Catholic Church16Joseph NieminskiLeon GrochowskiThaddeus F. ZielinskiJoseph SoltysiakJune 26, 1968June 26, 1968September 20, 1992 1st Canadian17Walter SlowakiewiczLeon GrochowskiJune 26, 19681972October 19, 19784th Eastern18Anthony RyszLeon GrochowskiThaddeus F. ZielinskiFrancis Carl RowinskiJune 26, 1968June 26, 1968July 1969Coadjutor CentralOctober 18, 197019994th Central19Daniel CyganowskiThaddeus ZielinskiNovember 30, 1971November 30, 197119774th Buffalo-Pittsburgh20Thomas GnatFrancis Carl RowinskiAnthony RyszJoseph NieminskiNovember 30, 1978197820115th Eastern21Joseph ZawistowskiFrancis Carl RowinskiNovember 30, 19781978April 19, 19944th Western22John Swantek*Francis Carl RowinskiThaddeus F. ZielinskiAnthony RyszJoseph NieminskiNovember 30, 1978198520025th Prime Bishop23Thaddeus PeplowskiLeon GrochowskiThaddeus F. ZielinskiJoseph SoltysiakNovember 30, 1990199020126th Buffalo-Pittsburgh24Robert M. Nemkovich*John SwantekThomas GnatOctober 18, 1993199420035th WesternOctober 8, 200220106th Prime BishopDecember 9, 2005November 30, 20066th Central25Joseph TomczykJohn SwantekThomas GnatOctober 18, 1993October 18, 1993October 4, 19952nd CanadianThe History of All Saints Cathedral of the Polish National Catholic Church (Chicago, Illinois, 1996)26Casimir GrotnikJohn SwantekThomas GnatRobert NemkovichAntonius Jan Glazemaker Hans GernyWiktor WysoczańskiNovember 30, 1999November 30, 1999December 20055th Central27Jan DawidziukJohn SwantekThomas GnatRobert M. NemkovichNovember 30, 19992003June 5, 20096th Western28Sylvester BigajRobert M. NemkovichThomas GnatThaddeus PeplowskiJan DawidziukJohn SwantekAnthony RyszNovember 30, 2006May 26, 2007January 7, 20133rd Canadian29Anthony KopkaRobert M. NemkovichThomas GnatThaddeus PeplowskiJan DawidziukJohn SwantekAnthony RyszNovember 30, 2006July 1, 200920117th Western30John E. Mack‡Robert NemkovichThomas GnatThaddeus PeplowskiJan DawidziukJohn SwantekAnthony RyszNovember 30, 2006February 1, 2011August 14, 20128th CentralAugust 15, 2012present7th Buffalo-Pittsburgh31Anthony Mikovsky*Robert M. NemkovichThomas GnatThaddeus PeplowskiJan DawidziukJohn SwantekAnthony RyszNovember 30, 2006November 30, 2006January 31, 20117th Central2010present7th Prime Bishop32Paul Sobiechowski‡Anthony MikovskySylvester BigajThomas GnatAnthony KopkaJohn E. MackThaddeus PeplowskiOctober 18, 2011December 2011present6th Eastern33Stanley BilinskiAnthony MikovskySeptember 14, 20122012November 2, 20188th Western34Bernard Nowicki‡Anthony MikovskySeptember 14, 2012September 14, 2012present9th Central35Jarosław RafałkoAnthony MikovskyJohn E. MackPaul SobiechowskiBernard NowickiJohn SwantekSeptember 14, 2020October 3, 2020July 13, 20239th Western

See also Polish National Catholic Church Central Diocese of the Polish National Catholic Church St. John's Cathedral (Toronto) Union of Scranton

References

External links

References John Zenon Jasinski, Apostolic Succession in the Polish National Catholic Church (Scranton: no publisher, no date).

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