Rector’s authorities

He graduated from the Higher Theological Seminary in Płock, completed specialist studies in practical theology and catechetics at Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw. He also studied at the Catholic Institute in Paris.

He is the author and co-author of over 250 publications, also in foreign languages, English, French, Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian. He gave scientific conferences in Poland and abroad, in Paris, Minsk, Gródek, Kamień Podolski. Repeatedly invited by the Polish community centers around the world to meetings, conferences and catechetical workshops, to Paris, Fribourg, Lourdes, Lausanne, Geneva, Nottingham, New York.

Member and reviewer of numerous scientific editorial boards and member of the Association of Polish Catechists and the European Forum for Religions Education in Schools (EuFRES). Expert of the Ministry of Education and Science for teachers applying for professional promotion, expert for the assessment of nationwide programs and textbooks for teaching religion at the Commission of Catholic Education of the Polish Episcopate, and a consultant to the Scientific Council of the Polish Episcopate. Member of the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland (KRASP) and its economic committee, as well as the Conference of Rectors of Polish Universities (KRUP). Co-founder of the Pro Polonia Foundation.

Specialist and expert in the field of social rehabilitation pedagogy. She developed her own concept of relational social readaptation, which was the basis for her habilitation defended in 2013 at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Visiting professor at the Katholische Fachhochschule in Mainz and Alice Salomon Hochschule in Berlin, lecturer under the Erasmus program in Germany and Slovakia. Author of over 150 scientific studies.

She conducts extensive social and scientific activities. She is the vice-president of the “Patronat” Penitentiary Association, a member of the Committee of the Minister of Education “Na Rzecz Dobrej Szkoły”, a member of the Team of the Ministerial Project Preventing Social Maladjustment of Children and Youth, a substantive consultant of abstinent associations and others. Participates in the work of the Polish Association of Schools of Social Work, the National Association of Social Rehabilitation Workers, Deutsche Gesellschaft gegen Kindesmisshandlung und Vernachlässigung (DGgKV)e.V., the Team of Social Rehabilitation Pedagogy affiliated to the Committee of Pedagogical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She participates in national and international research projects.

In 2016, at this Faculty, he obtained the degree of doctor habilitated in the field of legal sciences in the field of canon law and took over the management of the Department of Law of the Eastern Churches.

In the years 2016-2019, he was the vice-dean of the Faculty of Canon Law of UKSW, and in October 2019 he became the dean of the Faculty. He is a lecturer of canon law at the Higher Missionary Seminary of Priests of the Sacred Heart in Stadniki, secretary of the editorial office of the quarterly “Prawo Kanoniczne“.

Member of the Association of Polish Canonists and Consociatio Internationalis Studio Iuris Canonici Promovendo in Rome.

 

He graduated from the Higher Metropolitan Seminary in Warsaw and completed specialized studies in catechetics at the “Bobolanum” Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Warsaw. He is the author and co-author of more than 130 publications. He is a member of the Committee of Theological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Editor-in-Chief of the annual journal Studia Katechetyczne, a reviewer for numerous academic journals, and a member of the Association of Polish Catechists, the Polish Mariological Society, the Scientific Society of St. Francis de Sales, and the Warsaw Theological Society. He heads the Catechetical Curriculum Planning Office at the Polish Bishops’ Conference, serves as a consultant to the Commission for Catholic Education, and is an expert responsible for evaluating nationwide curricula and textbooks for religious education. He is Chair of the Main Committee of the National Catholic Theology Olympiad.

Rev. Proffesor Waldemar Graczyk, PhD, DSc has been employed at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw (UKSW) since 2001 and has held the position of full professor since 2012. He is Head of the Department of Medieval History. From 2008 to 2012, he served as Vice-Dean for Research at the Faculty of History and Social Sciences, and subsequently, until 2019, as Director of the Institute of Historical Sciences. Following the establishment of the Faculty of History in 2019, he became Dean, a position he held until 2026.