Janusz (Januariusz Mikołaj) Bolonek (6 December 1938 – 2 March 2016) was a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the

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. He was named an archbishop in 1989 and represented the Holy See in

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, and the Macedonia.

Biography

Janusz Bolonek was born in Huta Dłutowska, Poland, on 6 December 1938. After studying at the local seminary he was ordained priest on 17 December 1961 in

Łódź Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of cant ...

, Poland. To prepare for a diplomatic career he entered the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in 1967. He also studied at both the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Pontifical Lateran University. His early assignments in the diplomatic service included stints in Nicaragua, the United States, and Egypt, and then at the Secretariat of State in Rome where he helped organize Pope John Paul's trips to Poland in 1983 and 1987 and worked on the commission negotiating the restoration of diplomatic relations between Poland and the Holy See. On 25 September 1989,

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

named him a titular archbishop of Madaurus and apostolic pro-nuncio to the Côte d'Ivoire. He received his episcopal consecration from Pope John Paul on 20 October. On 18 November 1989, he was given additional responsibility as pro-nuncio to Niger and Burkina Faso. On 23 January 1995, he was named Apostolic Nuncio to Romania. On 30 September 1998 he was assigned to the staff of the Secretariat of State (Holy See), Secretariat of State in Rome. On 11 November 1999, Pope John Paul named him nuncio to Uruguay. Pope Benedict XVI named him nuncio to Bulgaria on 24 May 2008, and added the responsibilities of the nuncio to Macedonia on 4 May 2011. He retired from the diplomatic corps on 6 December 2013. In 2014 a Polish historian accused him of spying while working in the Vatican, where he learned that Polish colonel Ryszard Kukliński was a CIA agent. He died on 2 March 2016.

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Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Januariusz Mikołaj Bolonek
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