Ten years ago Polish politicians shelved a silly suggestion that Jesus should be crowned king of this overwhelmingly Catholic country. But this week his enthonement went ahead in Krakow at the Church of Divine Mercy.

According to this report, the coronation took place in the presence of the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, and many pilgrims.



Praying in the parliamentary chapel for Jesus’ coronation.

The idea of the coronation of Jesus surfaced in the first half of the twentieth century. Polish nurse Rosalia Zelkova allegedly heard voices that told her that Jesus had listed a set of demands, one of which was to made king of Poland. It was a necessary condition for the salvation of the country in the upcoming war.A decade ago, the BBC reported that a bill to make Jesus king was kicked into the long grass, despite the face that 46 – 10 percent of the lower house – signed the bill.If it had become law, Jesus would have followed the path of the Virgin Mary, who was declared honorary queen of Poland by King John Casimir 350 years ago.The motion had been been backed by MPs from the far right League of Polish families (LPR), the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party and the Peasants’ Party (PSL).They argued Jesus should be made King on both theological and historical grounds.PiS deputy Artur Gorski said colleagues were:

But Monsignor Tadeusz Pieronek, a member of Poland’s Episcopate and rector at Krakow’s Papal Academy of Theology, dismissed the move.

Christ doesn’t need a parliamentary resolution to be the king of our hearts.

These lawmakers would do better to look after their constitutional prerogatives and let religious institutions and the Church do our work.

Since then, the politicians and the Episcopate appear to have had a change of heart.

A wee spat has now erupted on Reddit Catholicism, where one commenter, “Turbolamer”, pointed out that the report of Jesus being made King of Poland originated from Gazeta.pl, and is a lie:

Gazeta.pl is a left-wing, anti-church news source. I’m not 100% sure but I think the statement ‘King of Poland’ is false and misleading. The event seems to be about accepting him ‘as a King’, not ‘as a King of Poland.

“Turbolamer” provided a more reliable link to the Episcopate’s own statement regarding the matter.

Zenon Czosnek hit back, saying that the Episcopate statement reads :

We profess in face of God and Earth, that we need your rule. We profess, that you and only you have holy rights to us that never expired. Therefore with humility we bend our heads to you, The Lord of the Universe, and we recognize your rule over Poland and our whole nation, that lives in the motherland and away in the wide world.

Hereby Poland in 1050 anniversary of it’s baptism, solemnly recognized the rule of Jesus Christ.

Czosnek added: