George Kołodziej
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DioceseBunbury
Ordination28 May 1994
by Franciszek Antoni Macharski
by Franciszek Antoni Macharski
Consecration19 March 2025
by Timothy Costelloe
by Timothy Costelloe
George Kołodziej | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Bunbury | |
| Diocese | Bunbury |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 28 May 1994 by Franciszek Antoni Macharski |
| Consecration | 19 March 2025 by Timothy Costelloe |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jerzy Joseph Kołodziej 17 May 1968 |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
George (Jerzy) Kołodziej (born 17 May 1968) is a Polish-Australian Catholic priest and Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bunbury.[1]
Kołodziej was born in Dobra, Poland, part of the Diocese of Tarnów, renowned as the most religious diocese in Poland.[2] In 1987, at the age of 19, he entered the Society of the Divine Savior, known as the Salvatorians. He took perpetual vows in 1992. On 28 May 1994, he was ordained a priest for the Society of the Divine Savior, by Cardinal Franciszek Antoni Macharski at the Our Lady of Fatima Shrine in Trzebinia.[3]
