Tadeusz Pikus

Tadeusz Pikus (born 1 September 1949 in Zabiele, Mońki County) is a Polish Roman Catholic prelate who was bishop of Drohiczyn from 2014 to 2019. He was previously auxiliary bishop of Warsaw from 1999 to 2014.

Biography Pikus was born on 1 September 1949 to Bronisław and Stanisława Pikus . He was given the sacrament of baptism on 18 September 1949 by Antoni Bachurzewski and the sacrament of confirmation on 21 April 1963 by Władysław Suszyński. After obtaining his matura in 1975, he began studying at the metropolitan seminary in Warsaw. He was ordained to the diaconate on 4 May 1980 and to the priesthood on 7 June 1981 at St. John's Archcathedral by Jerzy Modzelewski. He obtained a magister degree in patristics from the Academy of Catholic Theology in 1981, followed by a licenciate in 1983. After serving at Jaktorów during this period as an assistant parish vicar, he was sent in 1983 to the University of Navarre to study fundamental theology. He obtained a doctorate from the University on 21 June 1985 after defending his dissertation, La noción de Apologetica segun Gardeil.

After returning to Poland, Pikus taught Latin and fundamental theology at the metropolitan seminary in Warsaw between 1985 and 1993, while also working as a clerk for the Secretariat of the Primate of Poland. He was appointed rector of the metropolitan seminary in 1987, and was raised to prefect in 1988. In 1989, he was appointed secretary for the Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Warsaw. In 1990, he was sent to Moscow as a chaplain, where he founded a college for Catholic theology, serving as its dean and as a lecturer in fundamental theology between 1991 and 1992. Afterwards, he began teaching at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Warsaw between 1993 and 1998.

Publications Aleksander Mień, kapłan Kościoła prawosławnego – zamordowany, , Warsaw 1997 Rosja w objęciach ateizmu, , Warsaw 1997 Aksjologiczny wymiar religii w twórczości Aleksandra Mienia : studium analityczno-krytyczne, , Warsaw 1998 Katolik w Rosji, , Warsaw 2003 O władzy w Kościele, , Warsaw 2003 Etiologiczna demarkacja dialogu religijnego w Kościele Katolickim, , Warsaw 2006