{"id":84635,"date":"2025-06-19T12:42:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/polonia-fra-zdzislaw-kijas-premiato\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T12:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:50:18","slug":"polonia-fra-zdzislaw-kijas-premiato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/polonia-fra-zdzislaw-kijas-premiato\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland: Friar Zdzis\u0142aw KIJAS Honored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On June 18, 2025, Friar Zdzis\u0142aw KIJAS was awarded the Medal of Merit of the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow, Poland. The ceremony took place in the University\u2019s library.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we express our gratitude to those who laid the foundations of our University as we know it today,\u201d said the Rector, Father Robert TYRA\u0141A. Our confrere was one of eight University employees who retired this year. \u201cHe worked at the University for 30 years,\u201d recalled the Vice Chancellor, Father Antoni \u015aWIERCZEK.<br \/>\nAt the same event, the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej DUDA, posthumously awarded the <em>Order of Polonia Restituta<\/em> [Order of Restored Poland] to the late Professor W\u0142odzimierz SIEDLIK. His wife and children accepted the award from the hands of Mrs. And\u017celika MO\u017bD\u017bANOWSKA, an advisor of the President.<br \/>\nIn addition, the Most Reverend Jan KOPIEC, Bishop Emeritus of Gliwice, Poland, was given the \u201c<em>Amicus Universitatis<\/em>\u201d award during the ceremony.<br \/>\nThe Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow is descended from the Faculty of Theology of the University of Cracow (late 14<sup>th<\/sup> century).<br \/>\nFriar Zdzis\u0142aw KIJAS has been associated with several foreign universities over the years. He served as the Rector of the Pontifical Theological Faculty of St. Bonaventure (<em>Seraphicum<\/em>) in Rome and as a Relator of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. He is an expert for the Holy See\u2019s Agency for the Evaluation and Promotion of Quality in Universities and Ecclesiastical Faculties and is the current Postulator General for the Order of Friars Minor Conventual. He is also the author of dozens of books in the fields of theology, hagiography and anthropology, and has written a three-volume novel. His books have been translated into several languages and published in various countries. He has authored some five hundred scholarly articles, published in Poland and abroad. Despite his many responsibilities and functions, he continues to do pastoral work as an active preacher.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Jan M. SZEWEK<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 18, 2025, Friar Zdzis\u0142aw KIJAS was awarded the Medal of Merit of the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow, Poland. The ceremony took place in the University\u2019s library. \u201cToday we express our gratitude to those who laid the foundations of our University as we know it today,\u201d said the Rector, Father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,115,148],"tags":[3863],"class_list":["post-84635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-federations","category-femo-en","category-news","tag-zdzislaw-kijas-ofmconv-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}