WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The clergyman who served as the personal secretary of late Pope John Paul II has resigned as Krakow’s archbishop, reaching the retirement age of 75.

Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz has sent a resignation letter to Pope Francis, according to a statement Friday from the cardinal’s spokesman, the Rev. Robert Necek.

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