Janusz Zimniak

Janusz Edmund Zimniak (6 September 1933 – 24 May 2024) was a Polish Roman Catholic prelate.

Biography Zimniak was born on 6 September 1933 in Tychy. In 1935 he moved with his family to Mysłowice. In the years 1945–1951 he studied at the local State Junior High School and Secondary School. In the years 1951–1956 he studied at the Higher Silesian Seminary in Kraków and at the Faculty of Theology of the Jagiellonian University. He was ordained a subdeacon and deacon through the ministry of bishop Franciszek Jop, capitular vicar of the archdiocese of Krakow. He was ordained a priest on 9 September 1956 in the Cathedral of Christ the King in Katowice by the auxiliary bishop of Kielce, Franciszek Sonik. In the years 1969–1972, he studied pastoral theology at the International Pastoral and Catechetical Institute "Lumen Vitae" in Brussels, which is a branch of the Catholic University of Louvain. He graduated with a bachelor's degree, had a master's degree in 1978 at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Lublin. He continued his specialized studies in the years 1977–1979 at the Institute of Pastoral Theology of the Theological Faculty of the Catholic University of Lublin, obtaining a doctorate in pastoral theology after submitting his dissertation Family Catechesis in the Works of Pierre Ranvez…Citește mai mult