Background
Wycisło was born in 1908 to Simon and Victoria Czechoslovakian Wycislo in Chicago, Illinois.
bishop theologian Catholic priest
Wycisło was born in 1908 to Simon and Victoria Czechoslovakian Wycislo in Chicago, Illinois.
He attended Saint Mary Elementary School in Cicero, Illinois. Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary (high school) in Chicago. Mundelein Seminary at the Saint Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein, Illinois.
And The Catholic University of America in Washington, District of Columbia, where he earned a master"s degree in social work.
Previously he was an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Chicago, Illinois. Early life and education Ordination and ministry He was ordained on April 7, 1934, by Cardinal George Mundelein at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake. During World World War II and into the 1950s, he served in Catholic War Relief Services, established refugee camps in the Middle East, India, and Africa, and later worked coordinating aid throughout Eastern and Western Europe at the request of the Polish American Relief Organization.
He was among the first American priests to enter Poland after the Second World War and he reported that the postwar Polish government had forbidden mentioning the pope in the press and in Polish churches.
Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago Wycisło was consecrated a bishop on December 21, 1960, and served as auxiliary bishop to Cardinal Albert Gregory Meyer of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Bishop of Green Bay He was appointed Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay (Green Bay, Wisconsin) on March 8, 1968, by Pope Paul VI. Bishop Wycislo was officially installed to this Diocese on April 16, 1968.
His episcopal motto was Caritati Instate (Be Steadfast in Charity). Wycislo retired on June 17, 1983, his 75th birthday, when he submitted his letter of resignation to the Holy Secretary
He remained active during his retirement by performing confirmations.
On his death in 2005 at the age of 97, he was the oldest living Roman Catholic bishop in the United States, and also was one of the few living Fathers of the Second Vatican Council.