Editing August Hlond (section)

===After the war===
[[File:Kaplica św. Jana Chrzciciela w katedrze św. Jana.JPG|thumb|Hlond's tombstone in the Chapel of St. John the Baptist in [[St. John's Archcathedral (Warsaw)|St. John's cathedral]] in Warsaw]]

Pope Pius XII appointed Hlond as [[Archbishop of Warsaw]], on 4 March 1946 and he was installed on May 30, amid immense crowds of supporters. The Polish Church faced great challenges: thousands of Polish clergy had been killed by the Nazis, and the Church and the Soviet-sponsored new regime in Poland were soon to clash. Hlond set about placing bishops on the empty Sees and reconnecting the Church with Rome.<ref name="August, Cardinal Hlond"/>

He spoke out against the Communist persecution of the Church. He issued a series of Pastoral Letters on behalf of the Polish Church regarding the new Poland, but these faced censorship at the hands of the new regime, and the government launched a nationalisation of church schools. In a May 1947 Pastoral Letter, Hlond wrote that "Since the days of St. Peter, the Church has not been subjected to a persecution such as that to which she is subjected today". Following Hlond's death in 1948, ''[[The Tablet]]'' wrote that "the nations of Eastern Europe which lie today beneath the police-regimes imposed from Moscow lost their most powerful spokesman".<ref name="August, Cardinal Hlond"/>