Jan Mazur
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Jan Mazur is a city in eastern Poland with 77,392 inhabitants . Situated in the Masovian Voivodeship , previously the city was the capital of a separate Siedlce Voivodeship ....
) was the Polish
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
bishop
Bishop
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of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Siedlce from August 6, 1968 until his retirement on March 25, 1996. He remained the Biship Emeritus
Emeritus
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of Siedlce until his death in 2008 at the age of 88.