archbishop of Cracow

As Archbishop of Cracow, he traveled here twice before his election in 1978, stretching out a 1966 visit for several months.

"If four Cardinals, including the Archbishop of Cracow, are not qualified to represent the Catholic side, who might be?"

The Archbishop of Cracow said this month that he was abandoning plans to construct an interfaith center to which the convent was to be moved.

He became an ordained priest, and eventually the archbishop of Cracow, where he began his fight against Communism and oppression.

In 1973, the Pope, then still Archbishop of Cracow, permitted a team of conservationists to reopen the tomb.

Before becoming Pope, John Paul was Archbishop of Cracow, the archdiocese that includes the Auschwitz site.

He even slept in the bed he used when he was the archbishop of Cracow, the position he held when he was elected pope.

They included Franciszek Cardinal Macharski, the Archbishop of Cracow, in whose jurisdiction the convent is situated, and three other European cardinals.

After one visit there in 1967, the Polish Government agreed to allow the elevation of Karol Wojtyla, Archbishop of Cracow, to Cardinal.

Karol Wojtyla, Archbishop of Cracow, Poland, was elected Pope in 1978 and took the name John Paul II.

Franciszek Cardinal Macharski, who replaced John Paul II as Archbishop of Cracow, delivered the Pope's homily.

At an emotional meeting in the Vatican this morning, he was received with an embrace and a kiss by the Pope, the former Archbishop of Cracow and an old friend of his.

Meetings With Church Leaders His first official contacts with the church came during martial law, when he met with the Archbishop of Cracow, Franciszek Cardinal Macharski.

"Such attitudes and actions make it impossible for me to continue to construct the center," Cardinal Macharski, the Archbishop of Cracow, said in a statement published by the official Polish press agency.

Politicians say that an encyclical letter issued on Thursday by Pope John Paul II, the former Archbishop of Cracow, is likely to discourage any further efforts to change the law.

At the conclave of 1903 he energetically opposed the movement of exclusion directed against Rampolla by Puczina, Archbishop of Cracow, in the name of the Austrian Government.

Until now, Pope John Paul II, who intiated the convent project while Archbishop of Cracow, has remained aloof, and the Vatican has said all decisions lie with local church officials.

But he said it appeared that the Pope, who was Archbishop of Cracow before his elevation, probably knew more about Poland than the C.I.A. and its handful of agents on the ground.

Future Pope John Paul II trekked to St. Hyacinth's several times as the Archbishop of Cracow and referred to his gatherings there during his 1979 pilgrimage to Chicago.

In the wake of the protests, the Archbishop of Cracow, Franciszek Cardinal Macharski, said he had canceled plans for an interfaith center near the site that was to have replaced the convent.

But this month the Archbishop of Cracow, Franciszek Cardinal Macharski, said he was abandoning plans to construct the center because of Jewish demonstrations protesting the church's failure to respect the accords.

The second bold move was the election in 1978 of a non-Italian Pope, Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, Archbishop of Cracow, writer, philosopher, dramaturge, skier and foe of the Communist Party.

At night, he is sleeping in the same residence here that he inhabited when he was the archbishop of Cracow - the post he held when he was elected pope - and in the same bed.

When he was still a cardinal, and Archbishop of Cracow, Pope John Paul II described the cathedral as "the sanctuary of the nation" and said, "It cannot be entered without an inner trembling, an awe."

But the deadline was not honored - indeed, it has been indefinitely suspended by Franciszek Cardinal Macharski, Archbishop of Cracow, whose diocese includes Auschwitz, because of "the atmosphere of aggressive demands by Jewish groups."