Ignacy Kłopotowski
Polish presbyter (1866–1931)
Feast: 7 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Ignacy Kłopotowski was born on 20 July 1866 at Korzeniówka, Poland, and received from his parents a sound faith and love of his homeland. He entered the major seminary of Lublin in 1883.
He founded the Loretan Sisters. In his last years, as parish priest of St Florian's, he cared for the poor and the homeless and spread the Word of God through publishing.
The miracles
The Dicastery's biography does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A priest who served the homeless and used the press to bring the Gospel to his people.
The cause
Ignacy Kłopotowski has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Sisters of Loreto: the cause of Blessed Ignacy Klopotowski.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Ignatius Kłopotowski
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatifications of 19 June 2005 (Ignatius Kłopotowski); no canonisation on the Dicastery's list
- Wikidata Q126058 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Ignacy Kłopotowski (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.