Jerzy Maculewicz

Bishop Jerzy Maculewicz, O.F.M.Conv. (born 30 May 1955) is a Roman Catholic prelate who serves as the first Apostolic Administrator of the Apostolic Administration of Uzbekistan and Titular Bishop of Nara since 1 April 2005.

Education Bishop Maculewicz was born into a Polish-Russian Roman Catholic family in Dashiv, Vinnytsia Oblast, then of the Soviet Union. His father Stanisław was a Polish and mother Serafima (née Koltsova) was Russian. and was ordained a priest on 22 June 1996 by Bishop Adam Śmigielski in Kraków, after completed his philosophical and theological studies.

Pastoral, administrative and educational work After his ordination, during 1997–2000 Fr. Maculewicz worked at the St. Maksymilian Centrum in Harmęże near Oświęcim, and for two years he lectured the Mariology at the Franciscan Major Theological Seminary in Kraków. He was elected vicar and secretary of his province at the Provincial Chapter in 2000, and a year later at the General Chapter, he was elected an Assistant General of the Order for Eastern Europe. During these years (2001-2005) he continuously visited all areas of the order that fell under its jurisdiction, including the Mission sui iuris of Uzbekistan, entrusted to the Conventual Franciscans from this province.

On 29 April 2022 he was elected the Vice-President of the newly created Bishops' Conference of Central Asia.