Józef Wrycza

Józef Wrycza (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjuzɛv ˈvrɨt͡ʂa]; 4 February 1884 – 4 December 1961) was a Roman Catholic priest, social activist, and military chaplain. He was born in what is now Zblewo, Poland, to Franciszek and Franciszka (Trocha) Wrycza, who were of Kashubian ethnicity. From 1894 to 1899 he attended the Collegium Marianum in Pelplin. He began his high school education in Kulm and completed it in 1904 at the Collegium Leoninum at Neustadt in Westpreußen, where one of his classmates was the future Nazi SS general Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski. Later that year he began studies at the Pelplin Higher Seminary (Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne w Pelplinie) and, on 23 February 1908, he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest.