Archbishop of Warszawa
Archbishop Adrian Józef Galbas, S.A.C., was born on 26 January 1968 in Bytom, in the diocese of Gliwice. He entered the Society of the Catholic Apostolate (Pallottines), and carried out his studies in Ołtarzew at the major seminary of the same Society, for which he was ordained a priest on 7 May 1994. After ordination, he first held the role of vicar of Saint Michael the Archangel in Łódź (1994-1995). He was awarded a licentiate in pastoral theology from the Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II (1995-1998), and went on to serve as prefect of Discipline in the major seminary of the Pallottines in Ołtarzew (1998-2002), provincial counsellor of the province of Poznań (2002-2005), parish priest of Saint Lawrence in Poznań (2003-2011), and provincial of the province of Poznań of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate (2011-2019). He was awarded a doctorate in spiritual theology from the Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego di Warszawa (2012). On 12 December 2019 he was elected to the titular see of Naisso and appointed auxiliary bishop of Ełk, receiving episcopal consecration the following 11 January. On 4 December 2021 he was transferred to the Office of the Coadjutor Archbishop of the metropolitan archdiocese of Katowice, where he became metropolitan archbishop on 31 May 2023. From 2023 to 2024 he was apostolic administrator sede vacante of the diocese of Sosnowiec. On 4 November 2024 he was appointed metropolitan archbishop of Warszawa. The bishop-elect was born on 26 January 1968 in Bytom, in the archdiocese of Katowice. In 1987 he was admitted to the novitiate of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate. He later studied at the major seminary of the same Society in Ołtarzew, and on 10 September 1993 he gave his religious vows in Zakopane. He was ordained a priest on 7 May 1994 in Ołtarzew, for the Society of the Catholic Apostolate. Since priestly ordination he has held the following offices: vicar in the parish of Saint Michael the Archangel in Łódź (1994-1995); student at the “John Paul II” Catholic University in Lublin, where he obtained a licentiate in pastoral theology (1995-1997); prefect of discipline at the major seminary of the Pallottines in Ołtarzew (1998-2002); provincial counsellor of the province of Poznań (2002-2005); secretary for the apostolate in the same province (2002-2003); parish priest of Saint Lawrence in Poznań (2003-2011) and at the same time confessor in the archdiocesan seminary of Poznań and in the seminary of the Resurrectionists in the same city. In 2012 he was awarded a doctorate in spiritual theology from the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. Since 2011, he has served as provincial of the province of Poznań of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate. He speaks German, Italian, English, Spanish and Russian. Promulgation of decrees of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.