Karol Wallowy

Henryk Olszar

Faculty of Theology of the Silesian University in Katowice
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1585-4637

Abstract

Father Karol Wallowy (1846-1920) is the first priest from the Holy Guardian Angel parish in Gorzyce in the Archdiocese of Katowice, noted in the sources. In Wrocław he graduated from Saint Matthias Gymnasium and the Faculty of Catholic Theology. He was ordained a priest on June 28, 1871 by the Bishop of Wrocław, Heinrich Förster. He was the Silesian chaplain from the uprising to the fall of the German Empire, during the period of disputes over the resolutions of the Second Vatican Council and Kulturkampf. He was a spiritual guide for the faithful in Bieńkowice, Łubowice and Zakrzów. He did not live to see the divided Silesia after the end of the Great War, although he prepared its arrival in his mind and emotions. In 1922, his native Gorzyce found himself in Poland, and the parish of Saint Nicholas in Zakrzów, where he served for 28 years and has his grave there, remained in the federal state called the “Weimar Republic”. In his priesthood he was “on the right path” which “led him to holiness”.

Keywords:

Father Karol Wallowy, Gorzyce, the diocese of Wrocław, Zakrzów, “Schlesisches Pastoralblatt”