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Title: Lutheran Diocese Bishop Dies Returning from Poland President's Funeral
ELCA NEWS SERVICE

>April 20, 2010  

Lutheran Diocese Bishop Dies Returning from Poland President's Funeral
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CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. Mieczyslaw Cieslar, bishop, Warsaw
diocese of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession (Lutheran)
in Poland (ECACP), died April 19 in a car accident returning home from
attending state funeral services for Lech Kaczynski, Poland's president.
The ECACP is a member of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF).

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