Zenon Cardinal Grocholewski

Zenon Cardinal Grocholewski (born October 11, 1939 in Bródki, Poland) is a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

He is Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Gregorian University. He was ordained for the Archdiocese of Poznań on 27 May 1963. He worked for three years at Christ the Redeemer Parish in Poznań before earning a doctorate in canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome.
From 1972 to 1999 he worked at the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura as notary, chancellor, Secretary and Prefect. During this time he was one of the seven members of the commission that studied the draft of the 1983 Code of Canon Law with the Pope, and he taught canon law at the Gregorian and Lateran Universities and the Studio Rotale. Is assumed to be one of the renowned contemporary experts in canon law.

He was appointed titular Bishop of Agropoli on 21 December 1982 and promoted to Archbishop on 16 December 1991. On 15 November 1999 he was appointed Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education. He is presently the Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Gregorian University.

Created and proclaimed Cardinal by John Paul II in the consistory of 21 February 2001. Diaconate of St. Nicholas in Prison. He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.

On July 8, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Grocholewski to the Apostolic Signatura, the highest tribunal of the church.[1]

Curial membership:
*Doctrine of the Faith, Bishops (congregations)
*Legislative Texts (council)
*Special Council for Ocania of the Secretariat General (Synod of Bishops)