SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Kazimierz Świątek

1914 - 2011

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Kazimierz Cardinal Świątek (Belarusian: Казімір Свёнтак, romanized: Kazimir Sviontak; 21 October 1914 – 21 July 2011) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who was most known for his resistance to Cold War-era Soviet communism and for his service in Minsk, Belarus. Cardinal Swiatek was the former Metropolitan Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev, and Apostolic Administrator of Pinsk. Świątek was born to Polish parents in the municipality of Walk, in what was then the Russian Empire, the present-day municipality of Valga, Estonia. His family was deported to Siberia during the Russian Revolution. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kazimierz Świątek is the 312th most popular social activist (up from 359th in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from Estonia (up from 77th in 2019) and the most popular Estonian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Kazimierz Świątek ranks 312 out of 840. Before him are Johannes Kleiman, Túpac Katari, Khudiram Bose, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Martin Guerre, and Hanns Martin Schleyer. After him are Mohamed Bouazizi, Yagan, Ashin Wirathu, Millicent Fawcett, Maria Altmann, and Susannah Mushatt Jones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Kazimierz Świątek ranks 156. Before him are Frances Oldham Kelsey, Patrick O'Brian, Arno Schmidt, Jens Otto Krag, Hernán Siles Zuazo, and Harry F. Byrd Jr.. After him are Albrecht Brandi, Sun Ra, Domènec Balmanya, Budd Schulberg, Magda Frank, and Adolf Diekmann. Among people deceased in 2011, Kazimierz Świątek ranks 145. Before him are Édouard Glissant, Hella Haasse, Jean Bartik, Josef Suk, Peter Yates, and Ladislav Novák. After him are Mohamed Bouazizi, Josip Katalinski, Virgilio Noè, Osamu Dezaki, Lawrence Eagleburger, and Anne Francis.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Kazimierz Świątek ranks 70 out of 351. Before him are Johann Voldemar Jannsen (1819), Erhard Schmidt (1876), Jüri Uluots (1890), Betti Alver (1906), Eduard Tubin (1905), and Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg (1794). After him are Ita Ever (1931), Kaarel Eenpalu (1888), Jaan Teemant (1872), Balthasar Russow (1536), Aleksander Klumberg (1899), and Herman Wrangel (1584).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Estonia

Among social activists born in Estonia, Kazimierz Świątek ranks 1. 

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