Adrian Józef Galbas

Adrian Józef Galbas, S.A.C. (born 26 January 1968) is a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Metropolitan Archbishop of Warsaw since December 2024. He became Archbishop of Katowice in May 2023, after sixteen months as coadjutor there. He was auxiliary bishop of Ełk from 2020 to 2021. He is a professed member of the Pallottines (Society of the Catholic Apostolate).

Biography Adrian Józef Galbas was born in Bytom on 26 January 1968. He joined the Pallottines in 1987. he studied at that order's major seminary in Ołtarzew and took his final vows on 10 September 1993 in Zakopane. He was ordained a priest of that order on 7 May 1994 in Ołtarzew He received his episcopal consecration on 11 January 2020

On 31 May 2023, he succeeded as Archbishop of Katowice when Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Archbishop Wiktor Skworc. He was installed there on 17 June.

In October 2023, following the abrupt removal of Bishop Grzegorz Kaszak from the Diocese of Sosnowiec, Galbas was named apostolic administrator of that diocese.

Speaking to participants in a women's pilgrimage in the autumn of 2023, he described his own experience of crises of faith. He said that "The God I met in childhood was very categorical, you had to earn your place in Him. When I was growing up, this faith was not able to keep me in the Church." He said he had to find his way independently and concluded: "The enemy of faith is religious fundamentalism, which believes it knows the answers to all questions, for which ideology is God, and which is an equal threat to believers and non-believers."

On 4 November 2024, Pope Francis transferred him to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Warsaw. Krzyžak described his appointment as part of Pope Francis' program for qualitative change in the leadership of the Church in Poland, but thought his reassignment after such a short time in Katowice demonstrated the lack of available pastoral talent. He was installed in Warsaw on 14 December 2024.

On 8 March 2025, Galbas was appointed ordinary for the Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in Poland.

Within the Polish Episcopal Conference (KEP) he chairs the Council for the Lay Apostolate. He is a member of the Permanent Council of the KEP, a member of its team for the Pastoral Care of Polish Emigration, a delegate for the Apostolate of the Sick, and a delegate for the Schoenstatt Movement in Poland.