Stanisław Padewski

Life

Born in 1932 near Buczacz (then Tarnopol Voivodeship in eastern Poland, today Butschatsch, Ukraine), Padewski was forcibly resettled with his family in December 1945 to Nowe Miasteczko near Nowa Sól in western Poland. Padewski attended the lyceum in Nowa Sól for two years before entering the Capuchin convent in Sędziszów Małopolski in 1949, where he took the religious name Wenanty. After his first vows in 1950, he made his perpetual vows on September 19, 1953 in the Capuchin monastery in Kraków.

From 1952 to 1957, Stanisław Padewski studied philosophy and theology at the Higher Spiritual Seminary of the Capuchin Friars in Kraków. Padewski was ordained a priest on February 24, 1957 by the auxiliary bishop in Kraków, Stanisław Rospond. The inauguration in the Assumption Cathedral in Kharkiv took place on July 10, 2002.

On March 19, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI. accepted Padewski's retirement due to age. He returned to Poland and initially lived in the Capuchin convent in Kielce. However, after a few months he returned to the priestly ministry in Ukraine. In 2012 he settled in the convent in Sędziszów Małopolski, where he died on January 29, 2017.