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Jan Styrna

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His Excellency
Jan Styrna
Bishop Emeritus of Elbląg
Archdiocese Warmia
Appointed 2 August 2003
Term ended 10 May 2014
Predecessor Andrzej Józef Sliwinski
Successor Jacek Jezierski
Previous posts Auxiliary Bishop of Tarnów and Titular Bishop of Aquipendium (1991–2003)
Orders
Ordination 27 June 1965
by Jerzy Karol Ablewicz
Consecration 28 July 1991
by Józef Mirosław Życiński
Personal details
Born 25 January 1941
Przyborów, General Government
Died 28 September 2022 (aged 81)
Elbląg, Poland

Jan Styrna (25 January 1941 – 28 September 2022) was a Polish Roman Catholic prelate.

Styrna was born in Poland and was ordained to the priesthood in 1965. He served as titular bishop of Aquipendium and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarnów, Poland, from 1991 to 2001 and as the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Elblag, Poland, from 2003 until his resignation in 2013.[1]

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