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		</div><p>Pope Francis has continued his clear-out in Poland after revelations of clergy sexual abuse and cover-up.</p>
<p>This has included replacing Gdansk Archbishop Slawoj Leszek Glodz on his 75th birthday.</p>
<p>While all Catholic bishops must offer to retire when they turn 75, it is highly unusual for the Pope to accept such a resignation on their actual birthday.</p>
<p>Doing so suggests Francis is keen to send a signal showing his seriousness about ending the culture of concealment within the Polish church hierarchy.</p>
<p>The Pope named a temporary administrator to run the Gdansk archdiocese after accepting Mr Glodz’s resignation.</p>
<p>He had featured in one of the devastating recent documentaries about priestly sex abuse and cover-up in Poland.</p>
<p>In the 2019 film Tell No One, Mr Glodz is shown eulogising a known paedophile priest, the Reverend Franciszek Cybula, the personal chaplain to Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, at his funeral despite knowing of his abuse.</p>
<p>Abuse survivors also included Mr Glodz in a report identifying two dozen current and retired Polish bishops accused of protecting predator priests.</p>
<p>The report was delivered to Francis on the eve of his 2019 global abuse prevention summit at the Vatican.</p>
<p>The archbishop had been criticised by prominent Polish survivor Barbara Borowiecka, a victim of one of the country’s most famous Solidarity-era priests, the late Reverend Henryk Jankowski.</p>
<p>A statue of Mr Jankowski in Gdansk was toppled and eventually removed last year following her revelations.</p>
<p>Ms Borowiecka, whose decision to go public with her story helped kick-start reform in Poland, was euphoric when she learned of Mr Glodz’s replacement.</p>
<p>“I am so, so happy and shocked,” she said.</p>
<p>“I never expected this news, never in a million years.”</p>
<p>The action by Francis was the second time in two months he has replaced a Polish bishop on the same day they turned 75.</p>
<p>It follows another decision by the Pope to sideline a third Polish bishop pending a Vatican investigation into allegations he covered up for predators.</p>
<p>The Polish bishops’ conference announced the news of Mr Glodz’s resignation in a statement, stressing he had turned 75 and “thus he has reached retirement age and is retiring”.</p>
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