WARSAW, Poland — Henryk Jankowski, a Polish priest who gained prominence in the 1980s by supporting Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement but who later saw his reputation marred by anti-Semitism and suspicions of pedophilia, died Monday evening in Gdansk, the city's mayor said. He was 73.

Mayor Pawel Adamowicz announced Jankowski's death on Facebook, saying the prelate died at 8:05 p.m. local time. He did not give a cause of death but Polish media reports noted the priest had battled diabetes for years.

Jankowski, the parish priest for the St. Brygida Church in Gdansk, came to national prominence when he celebrated Masses for shipyard workers striking under Walesa's leadership — resistance that paved the way for communism's eventual demise.

Along the way he won the nickname "Solidarity's chaplain."