Wiesław Dawidowski

Wiesław Dawidowski, OSA (born 14 March 1964) is a Polish priest of the Roman Catholic Church. A member of the Augustinians, he has worked as a journalist and commentator. From 2007 to 2012 he was the anchorman of Religia.tv. He was the Christian Co-chair of the Polish Council of Christians and Jews from 2009 to 2013. He has been the Provincial Superior of the Augustine Order in Poland since 2012.

Biography Dawidowski was born on 14 March 1964 in Gdynia. They had been distributing leaflets with information about the Solidarity radio station. While in prison, he went on hunger strike with a group of political prisoners to protest against the debasing treatment of women inmates.

Dawidowski joined the Augustinian Order in 1987 and was ordained a priest on 14 June 1991. He graduated from the Theological Institute of Missionary Priests in Krakow, He later established and supervised the Augustinian monastery in Łomianki, the Augustinians' only centre in Poland outside Kraków. In 2004, he became the head of the Warsaw Archdiocese' Centre for the Pastoral Care of Anglophone Foreigners.

In a 2010 interview he described himself as "anti-clerical" and mocked seminaries who acted a role as if they had to perform as priests. He explained that years performing menial tasks in a monastery were crucial in his formation.

On 12 July 2013, he resigned from his post as co-chairman of the Polish Council of Christians and Jews, citing the burdens of his other duties.

In 2018, during protests calling for government prosecution of priests accused of sexual abuse, he said he doubted the Church would exploit its relationship with government officials to protect abusers, "but anything is possible". To address the issue, he advised:

Dawidowski authored blog on the Religia website called "Przed kruchtą" (On the front porch).

As of 2018 he was vice-president of the National Conference of the Major Superiors of the Religious Orders in Poland.