Stephen Kaminski

Stephen Kaminski (born Fryderyk Roeder, 1859 – September 19, 1911) was the bishop of an independent Christian diocese known as the Polish Independent Catholic Church of America. He is considered to have been an . the basis for Polish discord, to facilitate the russification of the Catholic Church.

Over the next several years, Kaminski developed his Church.

From 1898 to 1911 he edited and published a weekly Polish newspaper Warta, an organ of his independent church. He died in Buffalo on September 19, 1911.

The consequences of the death of Bishop Kaminski's death led to the creation of the Polish National Catholic Church (PNCC), which was a member of the Old Catholic Churches' Union of Utrecht from 1907 to 2003.

Eventually, the Buffalo center of the independent movement ceased to exist and most of his parishioners affiliated themselves with the Scranton center of the independent movement. Some of the faithful Polish Catholic Church in North America who did not join the PNCC joined a separate Christian denomination and later took the name Mariavite Old Catholic Church in North America.

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He was editor of the following Polish language newspaper: Warta (in Polish) (Buffalo, NY).

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