Prof. Zdzisław Kijas OFM Conv.

Prof. Zdzisław Kijas OFM Conv., of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, was born in Poland in 1960. In the year 1986, he received priestly ordination from the Holy Father, the Servant of God, John Paul II.

He studied in Poland, Italy, Belgium and the United Stated, and obtained a doctorate in Religious Science and in Dogmatics at the Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve in Belgium. He has been a Professor at the Theological Faculty of the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Krakow. Currently, he is President of the Pontifical Theological Faculty of St. Bonaventure-Seraphicum, and Primary Secretary and Archivist of the Pontifical Academy of the Immaculate. He is an Ordinary Professor of: Ecclesiology and Ecumenism at the Pontifical Theological Faculty of St. Bonaventure-Seraphicum. He also teaches at the Antonianum and the University of Studies of Venice Ca’ Foscari.

He has numerous publications of scientific character. Apart from the various articles in diverse languages, on the subjects of dogmatics, Mariology, and spirituality, he has also published various texts. Among the most recent:

- Początki świata i człowieka [The beginnings of the world and of man], Kraków 2004

- Aniołowie Stróżowie nasi niebiescy przyjaciele [The Guardian Angels, our heavenly friends], Czestochowa 2006 (soon to be published in Italian, Ed. EMP).

- Brewiarz ekologa [Breviary of ecology], Kraków 2006.

- Dwanaście dróg do szczęścia [Twelve ways to happiness], Kraków 2006.

- Il cielo. Luogo del desiderio di Dio, [Heaven. Place of the desire of God] Città Nuova 2005.

- Odpowiedzi na 101 pytań o ekumenizm, [Responses to 101 questions on ecumenism], Krakow 2004 (soon to be published in Italian, Ed EMP)

- Odpowiedzi na 101 pytań o rzeczy ostateczne, [Responses to 101 questions on eschatology], Kraków 2004.

- Traktat o Duchu Świętym i łasce [Treatise on the Holy Spirit and Grace], Warszawa 2007.