WOYWOD, STANISLAUS. - In the world Antonio, canonist, b. 10 Aug. 1880 at Guttstadt in the diocese of Warmia in Germany, d. 19 Sept. 1941 in the United States.

A Friar Minor in 1899, ordained priest on 4 Jan. 1906, he was enrolled in the province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus in the United States of America. He cultivated juridical studies in particular and was a general lecturer in theology and canon law. Among the offices he held in the Order, those of guardian and definitor must be counted.

He wrote very numerous scholarly articles in various journals, especially American ones, chief among these The Homiletic and Pastoral Review and The Ecclesiastical Review. A highly esteemed writer, he is known especially for his commentary on the CIC: A practical Commentary on the Code of Canon Law, New York 1925 (5th ed., in 2 vols., ibid. 1939).

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BIBL.: Schematismus totius Ordinis Fratrum Minorum, Florence 1938, p. 935; Acta Ord. Fratr. Min., 63 (1944), p. 106.

Lorenzo Simeone

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Woywod, Stanislaus

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