{"id":72750,"date":"2024-09-25T20:55:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T18:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/polonia-nuovo-vescovo-ofmconv\/"},"modified":"2024-09-25T20:56:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T18:56:32","slug":"polonia-nuovo-vescovo-ofmconv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/polonia-nuovo-vescovo-ofmconv\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland: New Conventual Franciscan Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Wednesday, September 25, 2024, Pope Francis appointed our confrere, Friar Piotr Tomasz KLESZCZ, Auxiliary Bishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, Poland, assigning him the Titular See of Aquae Albae in Byzacena.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Friar Piotr was born on June 8, 1967, in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a. He professed his solemn vows with the Order of Friars Minor Conventual in the Province of the Immaculate Mother of God in Poland (Warsaw) on October 4, 1991, in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a-\u0141agiewniki, Poland. He was ordained to the priesthood on May 29, 1993, in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a-\u0141agiewniki. The same year, he obtained a master\u2019s degree in theology from the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw. From 1993 to 1995 he served as the Vicar of the Parish of St. Anthony and St. John the Baptist in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a-\u0141agiewniki and from 1995 to 1996, the Vicar of the Parish of Our Lady of the Angels in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a. From 1996 to 1997 he was the Vicar of the Parish of Our Lady of Cz\u0119stochowa in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. In 1997 he returned to the Parish of Our Lady of the Angels in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, and since June of 2016, has been the Pastor and the Guardian of the religious community there.<br \/>\nIn 1997, he founded the children\u2019s ensemble, \u201cThe Little Choir of Big Hearts.\u201d He also composes the music and lyrics of the songs the choir performs. Since 2020, he has been involved in evangelization via the Internet, recording daily commentaries on the Liturgy of the Word.<br \/>\nWe wish our confrere well as he carries out his service as Shepherd, in keeping with the heart of Jesus Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Office of Communications<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, September 25, 2024, Pope Francis appointed our confrere, Friar Piotr Tomasz KLESZCZ, Auxiliary Bishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, Poland, assigning him the Titular See of Aquae Albae in Byzacena. Friar Piotr was born on June 8, 1967, in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a. He professed his solemn vows with the Order of Friars Minor Conventual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,132,115,148],"tags":[2855],"class_list":["post-72750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ufficio-comunicazioni-en","category-federations","category-femo-en","category-news","tag-piotr-tomasz-kleszcz-ofmconv-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}