Janusz Danecki

The Most Reverend Dom Janusz Marian Danecki (8 September 1951 – 30 August 2024) was a Polish prelate, auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Campo Grande.

Danecki entered the Order of Friars Minor Conventual in 1971, formally professing his faith on 8 December 1975. He was ordained a priest on 19 June 1977. For eight years he exercised the priestly ministry in Poland, passing through several parishes and also in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Warsaw until 1984. On 14 April 1985, he was sent to the Mission of Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe in Brazil, linked to the prelature of Tefé.

He also carried out parish activities in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brasília and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Luziânia. On 25 February 2015, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Campo Grande and titular bishop of Regiæ on 1 May. His consecration was by Dom Dimas Lara Barbosa, archbishop of Campo Grande, with his co-consecrators Dom Sérgio Eduardo Castriani, C.S.Sp., archbishop of Manaus and Dom João Casimiro Wilk, O.F.M. Conv., Bishop of Anápolis.

Danecki died in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul on 30 August 2024, at the age of 72.