Editing August Hlond (section)

== Early life and ordination==
Second son of a railway worker, he was born in the [[Upper Silesia]]n village [[Brzęczkowice, Mysłowice|Brzęczkowice]] ({{langx|de|Brzenskowitz}}), then ruled by Germany, now part of [[Mysłowice]] ({{langx|de|Myslowitz}}), on 5 July 1881. At twelve-years-of-age, Hlond went to Turin, Italy to study for the priesthood in the [[Salesian]] Congregation. He later studied a doctorate of philosophy in Rome, returned to Poland to complete Theology, and was ordained in Krakow in 1905.<ref name="August, Cardinal Hlond">[http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/30th-october-1948/4/august-cardinal-hlond August, Cardinal Hlond] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004215146/http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/30th-october-1948/4/august-cardinal-hlond |date=2013-10-04 }}; [[The Tablet]]; Page 4, 30 October 1948</ref>

In 1909 Hlond was sent to Vienna to be headmaster at a boy's secondary school. He remained in the city for 13 years, and working with spiritual and charitable organisations for Poles, and becoming Provincial of the Salesians for Austria, Hungary and Germany in 1919. Following the break up of Austria-Hungary after World War I, Pope Pius XI appointed Hlond as Apostolic Administrator for Polish Upper Silesia in 1922, and Hlond became the first Bishop of the Diocese of Katowice in 1925.<ref name="August, Cardinal Hlond"/>