Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency |
Czeslaw Kozon | |
Native Name: | Czesław Kozon |
Native Name Lang: | Polish |
Bishop of Copenhagen | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Roman Catholic Diocese of Copenhagen |
Appointed: | 22 March 1995 |
Term Start: | 7 May 1995 |
Predecessor: | Hans Ludvig Martensen |
Ordination: | 6 January 1979 |
Consecration: | 7 May 1995 |
Consecrated By: | Hans Ludvig Martensen |
Birth Date: | 17 November 1951 |
Birth Place: | Idestrup, Falster, Denmark |
Nationality: | Denmark |
Motto: | Veritatem in Caritate |
Coat Of Arms: | Coat of arms of Czeslaw Kozon.svg |
Coat Of Arms Alt: | Kozon's coat of arms |
Czeslaw Kozon (in Danish pronounced as /ˈɕeslɑw kɔˈsoːn/; Latin: Ceslaus; born 17 November 1951) is a Danish prelate of the Catholic Church who has been bishop of the Diocese of Copenhagen since 1995.
Czeslaw Kozon was born in Idestrup, Falster, Denmark, on 17 November 1951 to parents who were emigres from Communist Poland. He studied philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Pontifical Lateran University. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Copenhagen on 6 January 1979 by Bishop Hans Ludvig Martensen. He served briefly as assistant priest at St. Ansgar's in Copenhagen and then in other parishes until he was appointed vicar general of the diocese in 1994.[1]
On 22 March 1995, Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Copenhagen.[2] He was consecrated by Bishop Martensen on 7 May 1995.[3]
On 22 March 2023, he was elected one of the vice presidents of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union (COMECE).[4]
Czeslaw Kozon | |
Deathstyle: | not applicable |