Tadeusz Pikus (born 1 September 1949 in

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) is a Polish Roman Catholic prelate who was Bishop of Drohiczyn from 2014 to 2019. He was previously Auxiliary Bishop of Warsaw from 1999 to 2014,

Biography

He studied at the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw and at the University of Navarre in

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, Spain. He was ordained on 7 June 1981. For two years he served as vicar and catechist in the parish of Holy Family in

Jaktorów Jaktorów is a village in Grodzisk Mazowiecki County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Jaktorów. It lies approximately west of Grodzisk Mazowiecki and southwest o ...

. Returning from Spain, he was a lecturer, Prefect, and then Vice-Rector at the Major Metropolitan Seminary of St. John the Baptist in Warsaw. He was also appointed minister of entrepreneurs and promoters of economic life in Warsaw and was the rector of the seminary church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in

Białystok Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area. Białystok is located in the Białystok Up ...

. On 8 May 1999 he was consecrated Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Warsaw. He continued to teach at the

Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw (UKSW) (Latin: ''Universitas Cardinalis Stephani Wyszyński Varsoviae'') is a Polish state university created on the basis of the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw. UKSW is a public university t ...

. On 13 October 2005 the Ministry of Education awarded him the Medal of the National Education Commission for outstanding contribution to education. On 29 March 2014,

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named him bishop of Drohiczyn. Pope Francis accepted his resignation on 17 June 2019.

Publications

* ''Aleksander Mień, kapłan Kościoła prawosławnego – zamordowany'', , Warsaw 1997 * ''Rosja w objęciach ateizmu'', , Warsaw 1997 * ''Aksjologiczny wymiar religii w twórczości Aleksandra Mienia : studium analityczno-krytyczne'', , Warsaw 1998 * ''Katolik w Rosji'', , Warsaw 2003 * ''O władzy w Kościele'', , Warsaw 2003 * ''Etiologiczna demarkacja dialogu religijnego w Kościele Katolickim'', , Warsaw 2006

References

Polish Roman Catholic theologians 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Poland 1949 births Living people People from Mońki County University of Navarra alumni {{Poland-reli-bio-stub