The Religious Leaders Who Died in Poland’s Airplane Crash
Christianity Today has a sad rundown on the Christian elite who perished in Poland’s plane crash tragedy:
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Among them: Lutheran bishop Adam Pilch, who was on the plane as head of head of Poland’s Protestant military chaplaincy. Poland’s Gazeta Bielsko-Biata newspaper notes that the Saturday remembrance ceremony the many political and military figures were flying to was to be Pilch’s last official act in his chaplaincy role. The pastor was well known in Warsaw as pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (which Pope Benedict XVI visited in 2006) and later Church of the Assumption.
Orthodox archbishop Miron Chodakowski and Roman Catholic bishop Tadeusz Ploski, two other senior military chaplaincy leaders, also died in the crash.
Bronislaw Gostomski is one of the few religious figures to die in the crash and get significant attention in the Western press. That’s because he was a priest in Shepherds Bush, London (he had been the personal chaplain of Ryszard Kaczorowski, Poland’s last president-in-exile, who also died in the crash).
Orthodox Church In America – Orthodox Archbishop among those who perished in airplane crash
National Catholic Register – Catholics Mourn Polish Tragedy
Catholic Online – Two Bishops and Four Priests Also Killed in Tragic Polish Plane Crash
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