Pope Francis has appointed Monsignor Wojciech Tomasz Osial, 45, as Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Lowicz, Poland. The bishop elect has been serving as Lowicz’s diocesan director for catechism and curial notary.
Born in Lowicz in 1970, Wojciech Osial would later be ordained a priest in 1995 and would earn a doctorate in catechetics from Rome’s Pontifical Salesian University.
Moreover, Bishop-elect Osial has been a professor in the seminaries of Lowicz and Oltarzew, as well as the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw. Since 2014, he has been a canon of the cathedral chapter.
The Diocese of Lowicz comprises an area of some 5,806 square miles. Of its population of some 609,479, about 607,825 are Catholic. The diocese is served by some 166 priests and 390 religious.
