Archbishop Stanislaw Wielgus

On 20 December 2006 journalists found documents from the communist archives, according to which Archbishop Wielgus, collaborated—or at least conversed with—the communist secret services (S.B.) during communist rule in Poland. Poland’s human rights ombudsman, Janusz Kochanowski, said on January 4, 2007, that there was evidence in the secret police archives that Archbishop Wielgus knowingly cooperated with Communist authorities. The Rzeczpospolita newspaper published some of the documents, which appeared to show that the Archbishop met with police agents more than 50 times in one five-year period. Even Poland’s Catholic Church Historical Commission issued a statement saying that "there are numerous, substantial documents confirming Stanisław Wielgus’s willingness to a conscious and secret cooperation with the Communist security forces".
  
Archbishop Wielgus acknowledged that in 1978, he signed a cooperation statement with the secret police — under pressure, he said, from a "brutal intelligence officer" — when he was seeking permission to travel to Munich, Germany. He insisted that the only cooperation he ever gave was to inform the secret police of his agenda during foreign academic meetings and to promise not to take part in anti-Communist activities. However, he denied further allegations as an informer. "The personality ascribed to me in the intelligence service documents is so far from the truth that I would never have recognized myself," Archbishop Wielgus wrote in a statement issued on January 4.
 
The documents published by Rzeczpospolita and other newspapers suggest a much greater role for Father Wielgus. They indicated that he was recruited by the S.B. more than a decade earlier — in 1967, when he was a philosophy student at the Catholic University of Lublin. It cited other documents in which the S.B. claimed Father Wielgus gave them information about activities at the university, where he later taught medieval philosophy. The newspapers claimed that some of the documents refer to Father Wielgus by the code names Grey, Adam and Adam Wysocki. They said he received training from the S.B. and was rewarded for his collaboration with a grant to study in Munich. John L. Allen, Jr. states that "Polish journalists asserted yesterday that documents obtained from Poland's Institute of National Remembrance show Wielgus operated under the codename 'Grey', that he underwent special training for secret service agents, and even that at one point he attempted to infiltrate Radio Free Europe."[3] Wielgus has asked the Polish bishops' conference to examine the files pertaining to him.
 
The Vatican, meanwhile, continued to support Wielgus: "The Holy See, in deciding the nomination of the new archbishop of Warsaw, took into consideration all the circumstances of his life, including those regarding his past .... (Pope Benedict XVI) has every confidence in Monsignor Stanisław Wielgus and in full conscience entrusted him the mission of pastor of the archdiocese of Warsaw."
 
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Date	Age	Event	Title
23-Apr-39	NA	Born	Wierzchowiska
10-Jun-62	23	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lublin, Poland
24-May-99	60	Appointed	Bishop of Plock, Poland
1-Aug-99	60	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Plock, Poland
6-Dec-06	67	Appointed	Archbishop of Warsaw, Poland
5-Jan-07	67	Installed	Archbishop of Warsaw, Poland
7-Jan-07	67	Resigned	Archbishop of Warsaw, Poland