Rev. Msgr. Piotr Mazurkiewicz

Rev. Mazurkiewicz is a priest from the Archdiocese of Warsaw (Poland), ordained in 1988, and a Professor of Political Science at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw (UKSW), where he directs the Institute of Political Science and holds the Chair of Social and Political Ethics in the Department of Historical and Social Studies.

He is a specialist in European studies, political philosophy, Catholic social teaching, social and political ethics, and a member of the Research Council of the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a member of the Board of the European Society for Research in Ethics “Societas Ethica”. He serves the Polish Bishops’ Conference, as a member of the Advisors’ Group on the European Union and a member of the Council for Social Affairs.

In 2008, after collaborating with Commission of the European’s Bishop Conferences of the European Community (COMECE), on many projects, including the report to the COMECE Bishops entitled: The Evolution of the European Union and the Responsibility of Catholics, he was elected General Secretary of COMECE, in 2008, by the member Bishops of COMECE, with agreement of the Holy See, for a three year mandate. In 2002, he presented his post-doctoral dissertation entitled: The Europeanisation of Europe: Europe’s cultural identity in the context of integration processes at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1996, he presented his doctoral thesis at the Department of Ecclesiastical, Historical and Social Studies of the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw. It was entitled: The Church in an open society: Dispute about the Church’s presence in Polish society during the transformation period.