Romuald Jałbrzykowski

Romuald Jałbrzykowski (7 February 1876 – 19 June 1955) was a Polish Catholic priest.

Life Jałbrzykowski was born in Łętowo-Dąb, and he attended the seminary in Saint Petersburg. He was ordained in 1901, and he became the titular bishop of Cuse in 1918.

While Jałbrzykowski was the Archbishop of Vilnius, Saint Faustina Kowalska was a nun at the convent there, and her confessor was Father Michael Sopocko. Jałbrzykowski gave Sopocko permission to display the Divine Mercy image for the first time ever during a Mass on 28 April 1935, the second Sunday of Easter; the feast that is now officially called Divine Mercy Sunday.

Jałbrzykowski knew Faustina, and she had been to confession with him and told him about the Divine Mercy devotion. In January 1936, Faustina went to see him again to discuss a new congregation for Divine Mercy, but he reminded her that she was perpetually vowed to her current order. In the summer of 1936, Jalbrzykowski provided his imprimatur for the first brochure on the Divine Mercy devotion, written by Sopocko. He was arrested in 1942, and from 1942 to 1944 he was imprisoned by Nazi Germany at the monastery in Marijampolė He died in 1955.