Abstract

A priest Franciszek Krajewski was the first Silesian to take up as a Vicar Apostolic Administrator the service of the priesthood institution in Kobylnica. He was a Rector of the Parish of St Family and St Juda Tadeusz in Słupsk. He fulfilled his ministration from 1^st April 1950 till 26^th May 1951. As result of his requests this institution was taken charge by a priest Lucjan Koźlik as a Rector and 1^st June 1951 the Parish of the Holiest Heart of Jesus was founded in Kobylnica. In 1958 an independent priesthood institution in Kwakowo was separated from the area of the Kobylnica Parish and 12 out of 17 places from Kobylnica Parish which were located in the southern part were included in the pariesthood institution in Kwakowo. A formal foundation of the Parish of St Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kwakowo due to the anti-church policy of the authorities of the People’s Republic of Poland took place only on 25^th January 1974. In 1989 a priest Franciszek Maziarz assigend this parish to the Diocese of Koszalin – Kołobrzeg. In the years 1951 – 2009 the Parish of the Holiest Heart of Jesus in Kobylnica was managed by 10 Salesians acting as rectors, 7 out of them fulfilled the role of directors of a monastic order. A presthood service was also fulfilled by 31 priests of the auxliary staff. However the priesthood institution in Kwakowo was managed by 3 Salesians acting as in dependent Vicar Apostolics and two as rectors but in the years 1966 – 1989 the rectors were supported by 12 priests of auxiliary staff Furthermore 20 clergymen assistants worked in Kobylnica in the years 1952 – 1991 and one coadiutor in the years 2004 – 2006 but in Kwakowo four assistants attended pedagogical and priesthood training in the years 1959 – 1965. Salesians from Kobylnica served a local Parish Church and a Branch Church in Sierakowo and since January 1991 also the Chapel of St God’s Mother Faithful Support in Łosino, and since 1993 Sunday masses were also celebrated in a common room in Bolesławice. However Salesians from Kwakowo celebrated holy masses in the Churches in Kwakowo and Kuleszewo, since 1974 in Objezierze and in newly built churches: since 1983 in Lubuń, since 1987 in Suchorze, and since 1988 in the Chapel in Płaszewo that was adapted for sacred purposes. In the Kobylnica Parish there always was a large group of altar boys, the liturgy was from time to time accompanied by the performances of “schole” or teenage bands, there was also the Living Rosary, the Association of Salesians, Co-workers and Parish Council. There also with some breaks functioned Light – Life Movement and Revival in Holy Ghorst Movement.