Krakow, Poland, Jul 9, 2021 / 06:30 am
A Polish archbishop has asked for a coadjutor following a Vatican probe into his handling of clerical abuse cases.
The archdiocese of Kraków announced the conclusions of the investigation into the actions of Archbishop Wiktor Skworc of Katowice, southern Poland, on July 9.
In a statement, Kraków archdiocese said that the Vatican had investigated claims that Skworc behaved negligently concerning abuse cases involving two priests of the Diocese of Tarnów, which Skworc led from 1998 to 2011.
Tarnów, in southeastern Poland, is a suffragan diocese of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kraków.