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.
Francisk Hodur - first Bishop and founder Polish National Catholic Church
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.
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No. Name of bishop Consecrators Date of consecration Installation as bishop End of tenure Diocese
1
Franciszek Hodur *
Gerardus Gul
September 29, 1907
1904 1953 1st Prime Bishop [1]
1907 1949 1st Central [1]
2
Leon Grochowski *
Francis Hodur
August 17, 1924 1953 1968 2nd Prime Bishop [2] [3] [4]
November 1954 July 17, 1969 3rd Central [1]
1926 1955 1st Western [5]
3 Francis Bonczak Francis Hodur August 17 , 1924 August 17 , 1924 1928 1st Polish[6]
4 Valentine Gawrychowski Francis Hodur August 17, 1924[7] 1925 February 1, 1934[7] 1st Eastern [8]
5 John Gritenas Francis Hodur August 17, 1924 August 17, 1924 December 28, 1928 1st Bishop of the Lithuanian National Catholic Church [9]
6 John Zenon Jasinski Francis Hodur Valentine Gawrychowski Leon Grochowski June 7, 1928 June 7, 1928 April 28, 1951 1st Buffalo-Pittsburgh [10]
7 Władysław Faron Francis Hodur Leon Grochowski John Zenon Jasinski January 30, 1930 1929[11]
September 2, 1931[12]
2nd Polish
8 John Misiaszek Franciszek Hodur Leon Grochowski John Zenon Jasinski August 26, 1936 1949 November 1954 2nd Central [1] [13]
9 Józef Padewski Francis Hodur August 26, 1936 August 26, 1936 May 10, 1951 3rd Polish[14]
10
Joseph Lesniak
Franciszek Hodur Leon Grochowski John Zenon Jasinski John Misiaszek
November 16, 1937 November 16, 1937 September 1953 2nd Eastern [15]
June 3, 1951 September 1953 2nd Buffalo-Pittsburgh [10]
11 Joseph Soltysiak Leon Grochowski Francis Bonczak Joseph Lesniak John Misiaszek G. Ashton Oldham (Episcopal Diocese of Albany )April 23, 1952 1951 July 9, 1973 3rd Eastern [16]
12
Thaddeus F. Zielinski *
Leon Grochowski Joseph Lesniak Joseph Soltysiak John Misiaszek
September 2, 1954[17] September 2, 1954 1969 3rd Buffalo-Pittsburgh
1969 1978 3rd Prime Bishop [18] [19]
13 Joseph Kardas Leon Grochowski September 2, 1954 1955 July 8, 1958 2nd Western [5]
14
Francis Carl Rowinski *
Leon Grochowski
May 9, 1959 1959 1978 3rd Western [5]
October 3, 1978 1990 5th Buffalo-Pittsburgh [5]
October 3, 1978 1985 4th Prime Bishop [5]
15 Eugene Magyar Leon Grochowski June 29, 1963 June 29, 1963 October 19, 1968 1st Bishop of the Slovak National Catholic Church [20]
16 Joseph Nieminski Leon Grochowski Thaddeus F. Zielinski Joseph Soltysiak June 26, 1968 June 26, 1968 September 20, 1992 1st Canadian [21]
17 Walter Slowakiewicz Leon Grochowski June 26, 1968 1972 October 19, 1978 4th Eastern [22]
18
Anthony Rysz
Leon Grochowski Thaddeus F. Zielinski Francis Carl Rowinski
June 26, 1968 June 26, 1968 July 1969 Coadjutor Central [1] [23]
October 18, 1970 1999 4th Central [24] [25]
19 Daniel Cyganowski Thaddeus Zielinski November 30, 1971 November 30, 1971 1977 4th Buffalo-Pittsburgh [26]
20 Thomas Gnat Francis Carl Rowinski Anthony Rysz Joseph Nieminski November 30, 1978 1978 2011 5th Eastern [27]
21 Joseph Zawistowski Francis Carl Rowinski November 30, 1978 1978 April 19, 1994 4th Western [5]
22 John Swantek * Francis Carl Rowinski Thaddeus F. Zielinski Anthony Rysz Joseph Nieminski November 30, 1978 1985 2002 5th Prime Bishop [28]
23 Thaddeus Peplowski Leon Grochowski Thaddeus F. Zielinski Joseph Soltysiak November 30, 1990 1990 2012 6th Buffalo-Pittsburgh [10] [29]
24
Robert M. Nemkovich *
John Swantek Thomas Gnat
October 18, 1993 1994 2003 5th Western [5]
October 8, 2002 2010 6th Prime Bishop [5]
December 9, 2005 November 30, 2006 6th Central [1]
25 Joseph Tomczyk John Swantek Thomas Gnat October 18, 1993 October 18, 1993 October 4, 1995 2nd Canadian [30]
26 Casimir Grotnik John Swantek Thomas Gnat Robert Nemkovich Antonius Jan Glazemaker Hans Gerny Wiktor Wysoczański November 30 1999 November 30 1999 December 2005 5th Central [1]
27 Jan Dawidziuk John Swantek Thomas Gnat Robert M. Nemkovich November 30, 1999 2003 June 5, 2009 6th Western [5]
28 Sylvester Bigaj Robert M. Nemkovich Thomas Gnat Thaddeus Peplowski Jan Dawidziuk John Swantek Anthony Rysz November 30, 2006 May 26, 2007 January 7, 2013 3rd Canadian [31]
29 Anthony Kopka Robert M. Nemkovich Thomas Gnat Thaddeus Peplowski Jan Dawidziuk John Swantek Anthony Rysz November 30, 2006 July 1, 2009 2011 7th Western [5]
30
John E. Mack ‡
Robert Nemkovich Thomas Gnat Thaddeus Peplowski Jan Dawidziuk John Swantek Anthony Rysz
November 30, 2006 February 1, 2011 August 14, 2012 8th Central [1]
August 15, 2012 present 7th Buffalo-Pittsburgh [32]
31
Anthony Mikovsky *
Robert M. Nemkovich Thomas Gnat Thaddeus Peplowski Jan Dawidziuk John Swantek Anthony Rysz
November 30, 2006 November 30, 2006 January 31, 2011 7th Central [1]
2010 present 7th Prime Bishop [33] [34]
32 Paul Sobiechowski ‡ Anthony Mikovsky Sylvester Bigaj Thomas Gnat Anthony Kopka John E. Mack Thaddeus Peplowski October 18, 2011 December 2011 present 6th Eastern [35]
33 Stanley Bilinski Anthony Mikovsky September 14, 2012 2012 November 2, 2018 8th Western [5]
34 Bernard Nowicki ‡ Anthony Mikovsky September 14, 2012 September 14, 2012 present 9th Central [1] [36]
35 Jarosław Rafałko Anthony Mikovsky John E. Mack Paul Sobiechowski Bernard Nowicki John Swantek September 14, 2020 October 3, 2020 July 13, 2023 9th Western [5]
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