Father General Arturo Sosa has appointed Fr Mateusz
Janyga as the new Provincial of the Province of Southern Poland of the Society
of Jesus.
Born in 1978 inWodzisław Śląski, Fr
Janyga completed his secondary education in Rybnik before pursuing studies at AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, where he earned a
Master of Engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunications. After
working in the IT industry for one year, Fr Janyga entered the Society of Jesus
in Stara Wieś in 2003. After completing his novitiate, he went on to study
philosophy at Ignatianum in Kraków (2005-2007). His formation continued with a
two-year pastoral internship in New York, where he served as a mathematics and
religion teacher at Brooklyn Jesuit Prep, a Jesuit school serving
underprivileged children.
Fr Janyga pursued theological studies at the
Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (2009-2012), Palacký University in Olomouc
(2012-2013), and the Collegium Bobolanum of the Catholic Academy in Warsaw,
where he earned a master’s degree in theology. He was ordained a priest on June
29, 2013, in Kraków.
Throughout his priestly ministry, Fr Janyga has served
in parishes in Český Těšín (2013-2015) and Gliwice (2015-2020). He completed
his Tertianship in Nairobi, Kenya (2021), and pronounced his Final Vows in
Gliwice in 2023. For the past five years, he has served as superior of the
community and director of the Jesuit Public Elementary School in Mysłowice.
Fr Janyga will begin
his new role as Provincial on 31 July 2026.