Jan KLIMCZYK

24 FEB 1955 - 23 AUG 2022

• BIRTH: 24 FEB 1955, Kazimierza, Poland
• DEATH: 23 AUG 2022, St Joseph County, IN

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[N32973] Jan Klimczyk
February 24, 1955 - August 23, 2022

Reverend Jan Klimczyk, 67, passed away on August 23, 2022, in South Bend, Indiana. He was born in Kazimierza, Poland, on February 24, 1955. He attended the Papal Theology Academy in Kraków, Poland and was ordained a Catholic priest on May 17, 1981 in Kraków. He was proud of the fact that he had been accepted into the seminary by Saint Pope John Paul II, who was at that time, the Archbishop of Krakow. After ten years of various parish pastoral assignments in Poland, Father Klimczyk came to the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend where he engaged in priestly ministry at Saint Adalbert Parish, South Bend, Indiana. In 1994, he incardinated into the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend and was given through the years assignments in various parishes throughout the diocese. He is survived by his sister, Wanda Janczur; nieces Barbara Janczur (Miroslaw Banach), Anna (Andrzej) Karpiel, Renata Jedrzejczyk, Edyta Janczur, Agata (Piotr) Cichy, Magdalena (Michal) Janczur. Visitation will be held on Sunday, August 28, 2022 from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Saint Joseph Funeral Home, 824 S. Mayflower Road, South Bend, IN 46619. The Rosary will be prayed at 2:30 p.m. Visitation will also be held on Monday, August 29, 2022, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Saint Adalbert Catholic Church, 2505 W. Grace St., South Bend, IN 46619 with the Mass of Christian Burial beginning at 12:00 p.m. Burial will follow at Saint Joseph Cemetery, 24980 SR-2, South Bend, IN 46619. Online condolences may be made to the family at www.sjfh.net

Posted online on August 25, 2022
Published in South Bend Tribune

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Kazimierz (Polish pronunciation: [kaˈʑimjɛʂ]; Latin: Casimiria; Yiddish: קוזמיר, romanized: Kuzimyr) is a historical district of Kraków and Kraków Old Town, Poland. From its inception in the 14th century to the early 19th century, Kazimierz was an independent city, a royal city of the Crown of the Polish Kingdom, located south of the Old Town of Kraków, separated from it by a branch of the Vistula river. For many centuries, Kazimierz was a place where ethnic Polish and Jewish cultures coexisted and intermingled. The northeastern part of the district was historically Jewish. In 1941, the Jews of Kraków were forcibly relocated by the German occupying forces into the Krakow ghetto just across the river in Podgórze, and most did not survive the war. Today, Kazimierz is one of the major tourist attractions of Krakow and an important center of cultural life of the city. The boundaries of Kazimierz are defined by an old island in the Vistula river. The northern branch of the river (Stara Wisła - Old Vistula) was filled-in at the end of the 19th century during the partitions of Poland and made into an extension of ul. Stradomska Street connecting Kazimierz district with Kraków Old Town.[