Henryk SŁAWIŃSKI

Biography

Rev. Prof. Dr. Habil. Henryk Slawinski, PhD, Roman-Catholic Priest, ordained in 1989, has earned Master’s Degree in Pedagogy and in Theology, PhD. in Pastoral Theology, and Habilitation in Homiletics. He has taught Liturgy, Homiletics, as well as Pedagogy in several priests’ seminaries and theological faculties in Poland. Gave lectures at the Faculties in Germany, Malta, Slovenia, Slovakia. He leads Study Days for priests, religious sisters, and parishes, as well as preaches the retreats to the priests, candidates for priesthood, religious sisters, and parish retreats.
At present, he is a professor at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, and gives lectures in the priest seminary in Tarnow.
In the summer he is a chaplain in the hospital, and replaces the colleagues - parish priests in Austria. In the free time he serves as a chaplain of the Apostleship of the See of the United States.
He has authored eleven books and published several dozen articles in Polish, German, English, and Italian. He published Polish translations of two documents of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: Fulfilled in Your Hearing (Washington, D.C. 1982) and Preaching the Mystery of Faith (Washington, D.C. 2013).
He is the Editor in Chief of “Polonia Sacra”, the Review of the Theological Faculty of the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow; the President of the Society for Polish Teachers of Homiletics, a member of Polish Theological Society, a member of The Council for the Religious Language at The Council for the Polish Language at the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences.