Archbishop Adrian Józef Galbas, S.A.C.

Archbishop of Katowice, Poland

Apostolic Administrator of Sosnowiec

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 Jan 1968		Born
29 Sep 1989	21.6	First Vows	Member of Society of the Catholic Apostolate
10 Sep 1993	25.6	Perpetual Vows	Member of Society of the Catholic Apostolate
7 May 1994	26.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of the Catholic Apostolate
12 Dec 2019	51.8	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Ełk, Poland
12 Dec 2019	51.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Naissus
11 Jan 2020	51.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Naissus
4 Dec 2021	53.8	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Katowice, Poland
15 Dec 2021	53.8	Installed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Katowice, Poland
31 May 2023	55.3	Succeeded	Archbishop of Katowice, Poland
24 Oct 2023	55.7	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Sosnowiec, Poland

MicroData Summary for Adrian Józef Galbas
(VIAF: 306403745; WikiData: Q78193371)
Archbishop Adrian Józef Galbas S.A.C. (born 26 Jan 1968) Archbishop of Katowice

Ad Limina - October 2021 (Poland, unconfirmed): Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Bytom, Archdiocese of Katowice
Ordained Priest Our Lady Queen of Apostles, Church, Ożarow Mazowiecki, Archdiocese of Warszawa {Warsaw}
Ordained Bishop St. Wojciech, Cathedral, Ełk, Diocese of Ełk

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Katowice.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Józef Kowalczyk
Titular Archbishop of Heraclea
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Jerzy Mazur, S.V.D.
Bishop of Ełk
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio
Titular Archbishop of Montemarano
Archbishop Józef Górzyński
Archbishop of Warmia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Jerzy Mazur, S.V.D. (1998)
Bishop of Ełk
Archbishop John Bukovsky (Fukna), S.V.D. † (1990)
Titular Archbishop of Tabalta
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 12 Dec 2019
ob: CB, 15 Dec 2019
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 243, Number 20,338
ab: Bollettino, 4 Dec 2021
s: Bollettino, 31 May 2023

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