Catholic Academy in Warsaw

Voivodeship: mazowieckie

City: Warszawa

The history of the Catholic Academy in Warsaw dates back to the 1960s, a particularly difficult period for the life of the Church in Poland. In those years, these events influenced the need to solve the problem of educating candidates for the priesthood, i.e. alumni of the Metropolitan Seminary of St. John the Baptist, at the University of Warsaw.

In Warsaw, the Faculty of Theology, established in 1920, operated and operated at the University of Warsaw, whose students were alumni of the aforementioned seminary. However, the situation changed completely after the state authorities established the Academy of Catholic Theology in 1954.

Currently, it is an ecclesiastical university operating under state law, based on statutes approved by the Holy See. The Catholic Academy in Warsaw offers master's, bachelor's (canonical), doctoral, postgraduate studies and various courses. The university is open to lay people, priests, members of religious orders and institutes of consecrated life.

Currently, the university has almost 1,000 students, of whom 35.1% are women and 8.8% are foreigners. Last academic year, 137 graduates left the university, while in the academic year 2024/2025, 204 male and female students, including 74 foreigners, began their studies.

The university employs 55 academic teachers, of whom 7.3% are women. The university's graduates include: Czesław Drążek - a Jesuit, long-time editor-in-chief of the Polish edition of "L'Osservatore Romano" and professor at the Ignatianum Higher School of Philosophy and Pedagogy in Kraków, co-founder of the Society of Friends of Lepers; Stanisław Królak - a press and television journalist; Stanisław Łałowski, also known as Stan Lalowski - a jazz pianist; and Robert Pożarski - a musician, singer and researcher of Gregorian chant.