Józef Joniec

He made his first religious profession in the Piarist Order on August 16, 1977, accepting St. Krzysztof. He was ordained a priest on May 18, 1985, by Bishop Władysław Miziołek. After receiving ordination, he took up service in Kraków, Hebdów and from 1990 in Warsaw as a rector of the Piarist College.

He died in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash near Smolensk on 10 April 2010.^[1] He was posthumously awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta.^[2]