Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda, S.A.C., as metropolitan archbishop of Gdansk, Poland, transferring him from the metropolitan see of Białystok.

Curriculum vitae

Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda was born on January 29, 1957, in Kowala, in the diocese of Kielce.

After his high school exams, he entered the Society of the Catholic Apostolate (Pallottini), and after completing his philosophical and theological studies at the major seminary of Ołtarzew, he received priestly ordination on 8 May 1983.

He subsequently served as parish vicar and head of the missionary animation of young people in the Secretariat for Missions of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate (1983-1984). In 1986 he was awarded a licentiate and in 1989 a doctorate in missiology from the Pontifical Gregorian University. On January 11, 1990, he began work at the Pontifical Mission Societies and in 1991, at the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples. From 1991 until his episcopal appointment he served as Chaplain of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo in Rome and from 1996 to the present at the Motor Education Centre of the Italian Red Cross. In 2012 he was appointed as under-secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples.

On April 12, 2017, he was appointed as metropolitan archbishop of Białystok and received episcopal consecration on the following 10 June.

Within the Episcopal Conference, he has served as a member of the Commission for Missions and member of the Concordat Commission.

Besides Polish, he knows Italian, French, and English.

“I trust that the pastoral experience gained in the Archdiocese of Białystok will help the Archbishop in leading the Church of Gdańsk along the paths of the Holy Spirit, ensuring its development and prosperity through wise and prudent leadership, heroic sanctification and brave teaching,” wrote Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, president of the Episcopate in his wishes to Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda SAC on the occasion of the nomination to the Metropolitan Archbishop of Gdańsk.