Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
Marek Solarczyk | |
Appointed: | 4 January 2021 |
Ordination: | 28 May 1992 |
Ordained By: | Kazimierz Romaniuk |
Consecration: | 19 November 2011 |
Consecrated By: | Henryk Hoser |
Birth Name: | Marek Solarczyk |
Birth Date: | 13 April 1967 |
Birth Place: | Wołomin, Wołomin County, Poland |
Nationality: | Polish |
Religion: | Roman Catholic |
Motto: | Latin: Omnia possibilia credenti |
Marek Solarczyk (born 13 April 1967) is a Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop-elect of Radom.
A native of Wołomin, in east-central Poland, he studied at the Metropolitan Higher Seminary in Warsaw and received his priestly ordination in 1992 at the St. Florian's Cathedral, being incardinated in the Diocese of Warszawa-Praga. He finished his doctorate in Church History in The Catholic Academy of Warsaw in 1999, and acted as a professor on the subject.
After a brief tenure as parish priest of St. Florian's Cathedral (2009-2011) he was named Auxiliary Bishop of Warszawa-Praga by Pope Benedict XVI on 8 October 2011, receiving the titular see of Hólar, Iceland.[1] His consecration took place at St. Florian's Cathedral on 19 November 2011. On 4 January 2021, Pope Francis appointed him to succeed Henryk Tomasik as Bishop of Radom.[2]