Pope Leo XIV has appointed the prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, as the new metropolitan archbishop of Łódź, returning the Polish cardinal to his home city after more than a decade serving in the Roman Curia.
In a statement released on 12 March, the Holy See Press Office said, “The Holy Father has appointed His Eminence Cardinal Konrad Krajewski as metropolitan archbishop of Łódź, Poland, transferring him from the office of Almoner of His Holiness, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity.”
Cardinal Krajewski has served as prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity since 2022, the Vatican department responsible for coordinating charitable initiatives carried out in the name of the Pope. He had previously been appointed Apostolic Almoner by Pope Francis in 2013.
Born in Łódź in November 1963, he entered the city’s diocesan seminary in 1982 and later studied theology at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.
He was ordained a priest in 1988 and first served as a parish vicar in Rusiec and in Łódź before undertaking further studies in Rome. There he obtained a licentiate from the Pontifical Liturgical Institute of Saint Anselm and later earned a doctorate in liturgy from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas.
During his priestly ministry he held a number of pastoral and academic roles, including service in the Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff and as chaplain at the Orthopaedic and Traumatology Clinic of Sapienza University of Rome. He also served as master of ceremonies to the metropolitan archbishop of Łódź and later as a papal master of ceremonies in the Vatican.
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