Zenon Grocholewski
Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski ( born October 11, 1939 in Bródki, Poland ) is a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Life
Zenon Grocholewski received by his theological and philosophical studies at the seminary in Poznan on 27 May 1963, the sacrament of Holy Orders. He then spent three years as vicar in Poznan before in Rome, he completed his doctoral studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He was with the written in Latin work De exclusione indissolubilitatis ex consensu matrimoniali eiusque probatione doctorate summa cum laude to the doctor of canon law in 1972. After graduate studies, with stops in France and Germany, he was admitted to Awocato Rotale.
From 1972 to 1999 he worked at the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature as a notary ( 1972-1977 ), Chancellor ( 1977-1982 ), Secretary General ( 1982-1998 ). From 1975 to 1998 he taught canon law at the Gregorian University and the Pontifical Lateran University and the studio Rotale and had moreover to the amendment of the Code of Canon Law of 1983 significant proportion.
On December 21, 1982, Pope John Paul II appointed Titular Archbishop of Acropolis and donated him on January 6, 1983, the episcopal ordination.
On 5 October 1998, he was Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, 1999 John Paul II appointed him Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, and took him on 21 February 2001 as a cardinal deacon with the title Diakonia San Nicola in Carcere in the College of Cardinals to.
Grochelewski is as prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education at the same time acting Magnus Cancellarius the Pontifical Gregorian University, the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies ( PISAI ), the Pontifical Biblical Institute (PIB ), the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music (Musica Sacra ), the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology ( PIAC ) and patron of the Latin American Institute and the Faculty of Christian and Classical Literature ( FLCC ) at the University of the Salesians. He heads the Pontifical Society for Vocations.
On 21 February 2011, he was charged while maintaining his pro hac vice declared for titular church diaconal titles cardinal priest.
Pope Francis confirmed him on November 30, 2013 Office of the Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education.
Zenon Grocholewski published several books and over 550 articles, which were published in 12 languages. He is co-editor of several scientific journals on canon law and a member of several scientific associations.
Honors and Awards
- Order of Polonia Restituta ( Commander with Star, 2009)
- Honorary citizen of the towns of Trenton (New Jersey ) (United States ), Princeton (New Jersey ) (United States ), Agropoli (Italy) and Levoča (Slovak Republic)
- Medal Polonia semper fidelis for his commitment to Poland ( 1998)
- Medal of St. Gorazd of the Slovak Republic ( 2000)
- Honorary doctorates from the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, (1999), the Catholic University of Lublin (1999), the University of Passau (2001) and the Catholic Pázmány Péter University (2010).
Membership in the Roman Curia
Zenon Grocholewski is a member of the following congregations and councils of the Roman Curia:
- Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith
- Congregation for Bishops ( confirmed 2013)
- Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
- Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
- Apostolic Signatura
- Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts
- Council for Oceania of the Synod of Bishops