Zygmunt Szczesny Felinski

Zygmunt Szczesny Felinski

Zygmunt Szczesny Felinski (Wojutyn, at Loetsk, November 1, 1822 - Krakow, September 17, 1895) was a Polish archbishop.

Feliński studied mathematics in Moscow and Paris and became a priest in Ukraine in 1855. He founded the Franciscan "sister community of the family of Mary" in St. Petersburg in 1857. In 1862 he was appointed by Archbishop of Warsaw by Pope Pius IX. In the context of the tsarist measures against the January uprising, he was banned from Yaroslavl in 1863 for 20 years. He built a Roman Catholic parish community and supported other prostitutes. After negotiations between the Russian Empire and the Holy See, he should leave Russia. In 1893 he abandoned the office of Archbishop, and was appointed by Pope Leo XIII as Titus Bishop of Tarsus. He spent the last years of his life in Galicia.

In 2002 he was blessed by Pope John Paul II. On October 11, 2009, he was declared holy by Pope Benedict XVI.

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