Wojciech Giertych

Wojciech Giertych OP ( vɔjt ͡ɕɛx ɡ ʲ ɛrtɨx, born September 27, 1951 in Tottenham, London) is Pontifical House theologian and consultant to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and of the International Theological Commission.

Life

After leaving school at St Ignatius ' College in Stamford Hill in 1970, he came to Poznan, where he studied history at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. After its completion and defense of the dissertation, he entered the novitiate of the Dominicans. He was ordained a priest in Krakow in 1981. He then studied theology at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, where he was a professor of moral theology since 1994, and in Rome, where he earned a Licentiate in Spiritual Theology in 1983 and in 1989 received his doctorate in moral theology.

After his return to Poland he was master of novices in the Dominican monastery in Krakow and professor of moral theology. He taught at the School of Philosophy and Theology of the Polish Province of the Dominicans in Cracow. Since 1998 he was a member of the General Council of his order, where he held many functions ( Director General of the spiritual life, Deputy Director General for Central and Eastern Europe).

He speaks Polish, English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian and Latin. Pope Benedict XVI. appointed him on 1 December 2005 to the Pontifical House theologians. On 4 March 2010 he was appointed a member of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses and 14 April 2012 as a member of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.

Private life

Wojciech Giertych is the son of writer Jędrzej Giertych and Mary Luczkiewicz. After the Second World War, his parents moved to London, where he was born.

It is the younger brother of Maciej Giertych ( former MEP LPR) and the uncle of Roman Giertych (LPR, former leader of the League of Polish Families and former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education ). Two of his sisters were also in religious communities.