The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

Great Chancellor

Direct surveillance over the University on behalf of Church authorities is performed by Great Chancellor of  John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, namely by Rev. Prof. Józef Życiński, Ph.D., Archbishop of the Lublin Metropoly.

Rev. Prof. Józef Życiński, Ph.D., Archbishop of the Lublin Metropoly was born on 1st September 1948  in Nowa Wieś near Piotrków Trybunalski. In 1972, after his graduation from the Higher Theological Seminary of Częstochowa in Cracow, he took priestly orders. In 1976 at the Faculty of Theology in Cracow he obtained a doctorate degree in theology. He received a second doctorate degree, this time in philosophy, at the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw. In 1980 he qualified himself on the basis of the thesis: “Prostota
i dyskonfirmowalność jako kryteria w kosmologii relatywistycznej.”
Since 1980 he was Head of the Department of Logic and Methodology at the Papal Theological Academy. In years 1982-1985,  he performed the duties of  Deputy Dean, and from 1988 to 1990  Dean at the Faculty of Theology of this Academy. He was a co-organiser of the interdisciplinary seminar “Science- Faith” taking place in Cracow as well as of the conferences on the same subject, which were held in Castel Gandolfo in the presence of John Paul II.
Furthermore, he is an initiator of the series of books  “Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce” [Philosophical Issues in Science] published by the Papal Theological Academy (PAT), an English edition  of “Philosophy in Science” published by PAT, the Vatican Observatory and Tuscon University, and of the book series  “Philosophy in Science Library”, devoted to inter-disciplinary problems issued in cooperation with the Vatican Observatory.
In November 1990 he was appointed an ordinary of the Diocese of Tarnów and in
June 1997 he became Metropolitan Archbishop of Lublin along with the service of Great Chancellor of the Catholic University of Lublin.
Archbishop Życiński published his works in numerous Polish and foreign journals and magazines, among others in "Znak", "Więzi", "Tygodnik Powszechny", "Rzeczpospolita", "Przegląd Powszechny", "Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce", "Analecta Cracoviensia", "Studia Philosophiae Christianae", "Philosophy in Science", "Il Nuovo Areopago", "Astronomy Quarterly", "Review of Metaphysics", "British Journal for the Philosophy of Science", "The New Scholasticism", "Zygon". 
He is the author of many books, of which the most important are "The Structure of the Metascientific Revolution", "Teizm i filozofia analitycza" [Theism and analytical philosophy], "Język i metoda" [Language and Method], "The Human Person and Philosophy in the Contemporary World", "Wszechświat i filozofia" [Universe and Philosophy], "Drogi myślących" [The Paths of the Thinking], "Filozofować w kontekście nauki" [To Philosophize in the Context of Science], "Wszechświat: maszyna czy myśl"[ The Universe: a Machine or a Thought], "Trzy kultury" [Three Cultures] , "Medytacje Sokratejskie" [Socrates’ Meditations], "Dylematy ewolucji" [Evolution Dilemmas], "Matematyczność przyrody" [Mathematical Character of Nature] , "Ułaskawianie Natury" [The Pardoning of Nature], "Bóg Abrahama i Whiteheada" [Abraham and Whitehead’s God], "Granice racjonalności" [The Boundaries of Rationality], "Sacrum i kultura" [Sacrum and Culture], "Elementy filozofii nauki" [Elements of the Philosophy of Science], "Ziarno samotności" [The Seed of Solitude], "Uczestnicy Bożych tajemnic" [Participants in God’s Mysteries], "Na zachód od domu niewoli" [To the West from the House of Slavery] and about 300 scientific and popularizing articles.
Archbishop Józef Życiński is a member of the European Academy of Science and Art in Salzburg, a consultor of the Congregation for Catholic Education, a member of the Joint Working Group of the Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches, a member of the Joint Committee of the Episcopate and the Government of the Republic of Poland, a chairman of the Episcopate’s Council for the Laity and the Programme Council of the Catholic Information Agency,  a member of the Episcopate’s Commission for the Doctrine of Faith, a member of the Episcopate’s Commission for Ministry, a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, a member of the Committee of Philosophical Sciences and the Committee of Evolutionary and Theoretical Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN).

Address:
ul. Prymasa Stefana Wyszyńskiego 2, 20-950 Lublin
Phone: +48 81/ 532 34 68, fax +48 81/ 534 61 35
e-mail: j.zycinski@kuria.lublin.pl