Wojciech Giertych
Wojciech Giertych OP ( ˈvɔjt͡ɕɛx ˈɡʲɛrtɨx , born September 27, 1951 in Tottenham , London ) is a Polish papal house theologian and consultor of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the International Commission of theology .
Life
After graduating from St Ignatius' College in Stamford Hill in 1970, he came to Poznan , where he studied history at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan . After completing and defending the dissertation , he entered the Dominican novitiate . He was ordained a priest in Cracow in 1981 . He then studied theology at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas , where he was professor of moral theology since 1994 , and in Rome , where he obtained a licentiate in spiritual theology in 1983 and obtained a doctorate in moral theology in 1989.
After his return to Poland he was novice master in the Dominican monastery in Cracow and professor of moral theology. He taught at the College of Philosophy and Theology of the Polish Province of the Dominicans in Krakow. Since 1998 he was a member of the General Council of his Order, where he held many functions (General Director for Spiritual Life, Deputy General Director for Central and Eastern Europe).
He speaks Polish, English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian and Latin. Pope Benedict XVI appointed him on December 1, 2005 to the papal house theologian. On March 4, 2010, he was appointed a member of the Pontifical Committee for the Eucharistic Congresses and on April 14, 2012, a member of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints .
Private life
Wojciech Giertych is the son of the writer Jędrzej Giertych and Maria geb. Łuczkiewicz. After the Second World War, his parents moved to London, where he was born.
It is the younger brother of Maciej Giertych (former LPR MEP ) and the uncle of Roman Giertych , (LPR, former party leader of the League of Polish Families and former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education). Two of his sisters also entered religious orders .
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| SURNAME | Giertych, Wojciech |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish priest, papal home theologian and consultor of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the International Commission of Theologians |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tottenham , London |