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Janusz Kaleta, born 11th Oct.
1964, since 5th Feb. 2011, the Catholic Bishop of Karaganda,
and since 7th July 1999 the Apostolic Administrator of
Atyrau.
Born 11.10.1964 in the town of Lazy, near
Zawerce (Poland). Completed general education at the Secondary School of
Bobowa and in 1983 entered the High Priest Seminary of Tarnow.
In 1989 was ordained priest for the
Diocese of Tarnow by Bishop Jerzy Karol Ablewicz.
From 1993 till 1993 he worked as a priest
in the parish of Nowy-Wisnicz, while at the same time studying at the
Pontifical Theological Academy of Cracow, where he obtained his
licentiate.
Since 1993 he continued his studies at the
Theological Faculty of Innsbruck where in 1997 he
obtained his Doctor’s Degree with a thesis on moral theology. Back in
Poland, he worked as a priest in the parish of St. Nicholas in the town
of Bochnia while teaching bioethics at the Papal Theological Academy of
Cracow.
7th July 1999 he was nominated
Apostolic Administrator of Atyrau. On 6th May 2003, he
received the nomination as Papal Prelate.
15th September 2006, he was
consecrated bishop (the sacrament was conferred by Cardinal Angelo
Sodano, accompanied by the Bishop of Tarnow, Mgr. Wiktor Skworc and the
bishop of the dioceses of the Most Holy Trinity in Almaty, Mgr. Henry
Theophile Howaniec.
5th Febr. 2001, he was named
Bishop of Karaganda after the Pope in Rome, Benedict XVI had accepted
the request from the Archbishop Jan-Pawel Lenga to retire from the post.
At the same time, he he retains full authority as the Apostolic
Administrator of Atyrau “donec aliter provideatur” (until someone else
is nominated).
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