Stanisław Gądecki

His Excellency Stanisław Gądecki
Archbishop of Poznań
Church	Roman Catholic
Archdiocese	Poznań
Installed	2 April 2002
Predecessor	Juliusz Paetz
Orders
Ordination	9 June 1973
Consecration	25 March 1992
Personal details
Born	(1949-10-19) 19 October 1949 Strzelno, Poland
Nationality	Polish
Motto	Opere et veritate (In action and truth)
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Stanisław Gądecki (born 1949) is the Current Bishop of Poznan, Poland. He is a Polish Roman Catholic Bishop, doctor of Theological Sciences, Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno from 1992 to 2002, and Archbishop of Poznań since 2002. He was also Deputy President of the Polish Episcopal Conference (2004-2014), and serves currently as President of the Polish Episcopal Conference from 2014 and Deputy President of the Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe from 2016.

Early life

He was born on October 19, 1949, in Strzelno. In 1967, he graduated from their high school. From 1967 to 1973 he studied philosophy and theology in Primatial Seminary, Gniezno and was ordained on June 9, 1973, in the Cathedral of Gniezno.

In 1973–1981 he studied at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, gaining a Bachelor's degree. From 1976 to 1977 he was in Franciscan Biblical Studies college in Jerusalem. From 1981 to 1982 he studied at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, where in 1982 obtained a doctorate in Biblical Theology.

Career

He was a pastor in the Church of John the Baptist, the rector of the University in Gniezno.

On March 28, 2002, Pope John Paul II appointed him Archbishop of Poznań.

In October 2015, Gądecki vociferously condemned "feelings of false compassion" in relation to people that are gay, and rejected any rethink on homosexuality during a meeting of the Synod of Bishops in Rome.