Archbishop of Gdańsk
Rev. Tadeusz Wojda S.A.C., was born on 29 January1957 in Kowala, diocese of Kielce. After his high school examinations (1976) he entered the Society of the Catholic Apostolate (Pallottini) and, following his philosophical and theological studies he received priestly ordination for the Society on 8 May 1983, taking responsibility for the missionary animation of the young in the Secretariat for missions of the S.A.C. (1983-1984). In 1986 he obtained a licentiate and in 1989 a doctorate in missiology from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome. On 1 January 1990 he was appointed by Propaganda Fide and in 1991 at the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. He has served as chaplain of the Community of Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo in Rome and since 1996 as chaplain at the Italian Red Cross Centre for Motor Education for the disabled. In 2012 he was appointed as under-secretary for the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Aside from Polish, he also speaks Italian, French and English.