Wizytacje kanoniczne przeprowadzone przez Biskupa Tarnowskiego Jerzego Ablewicza
Canonical Visitations Carried out by Jerzy Ablewicz, the Bishop of Tarnów

Summary/Abstract: The source material of this article are the visitation questionnaires and reform decrees from the canonical visitations of Jerzy Ablewicz, the Bishop of Tarnów, collected in the files no. WK XXVII/3 – WK LIV/2 in the Diocese Archive Archbishop Jerzy Ablewicz in Tarnów. Their detailed analysis allows to illustrate the outline of the episcopal ministry of the Shepherd who headed the Diocese of Tarnów in the years 1962- 1990. Archbishop Ablewicz conducted 152 canonical visitations to parishes and rectorates. He prepared for each one meticulously by studying the visitation questionnaires. He conducted the visitations themselves in accordance with the norms contained in can. 343-346 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law, statute 43 of the Third Synod of the Diocese of Tarnów, and especially of the Synodal Instruction Canonical Visitation. As a result of the visitation, reform decrees containing detailed and substantive post-visitation indications were sent to each parish.

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