Honorific-Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
Tadeusz Płoski | |
Honorific-Suffix: | D.Sc., Ph.D. |
Military Ordinary of the Polish Armed Forces | |
Predecessor: | Sławoj Leszek Głódź |
Successor: | Józef Guzdek |
Ordination: | 6 June 1982 (Priest) |
Consecration: | 30 October 2004 (Bishop) |
Birth Date: | 9 March 1956 |
Birth Place: | Lidzbark Warmiński, Poland |
Death Date: | 10 April 2010 (aged 54) |
Death Place: | Smolensk air base, Russia |
Nationality: | Polish |
Religion: | Roman Catholic |
Tadeusz Płoski (9 March 1956 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish military bishop and Major General. He was born in Lidzbark Warmiński.
He was appointed the Military Ordinary of the Polish Armed Forces, by Pope John Paul II on 16 October 2004. He was ordained a bishop on 30 October 2004. In this role he oversaw the spiritual needs and priests attached to the Polish Forces.
He was listed on the flight manifest[1] of the Tupolev Tu-154 of the 36th Special Aviation Regiment carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński which crashed near Smolensk-North airport near Pechersk near Smolensk, Russia, on 10 April 2010, killing all aboard.
In 2017, it was revealed that when the Polish state reopened the investigation into the crash and exhumed victim's bodies, testing revealed that Archbishop Miron Chodakowski's coffin contained his body from the waist up and the body of Ploski from the waist down. Only half of Ploski's body was found in his own coffin.[2]