Janusz Kaleta

Who is Janusz Kaleta?

Janusz Kaleta is a Polish Roman Catholic bishop of Karaganda, apostolic administrator of Atyrau, Kazakhstan, and Doctor of Moral Theology and Bioethics, graduated from the Faculty of Theology in Innsbruck.

He was ordained a priest in 1989 in the Diocese of Tarnów. From 7 July 1999 is the Apostolic Administrator of Atyrau, Kazakhstan. On September 15, 2006 was elevated to the episcopate by Pope Benedict XVI appointed him titular bishop. Kaleta worked pastorally in Nowy Wiśnicz and Bochnia. After studying theology in Innsbruck in 1997 obtained a doctorate in moral theology, and his work devoted to issues of bioethics. In 1999 he moved to pastoral work in Kazakhstan. On July 7, 1999 John Paul II created the country's Apostolic Administration of Atyrau, the first with their manager was appointed Father Kaleta. This church subdivision includes western regions of Kazakhstan bordering the Caspian Sea. In an area of over 736 thousand km², and thus more than twice higher than the Polish, lives more than 2.2 million people, including more than 2.5 thousand. Catholics, in a large proportion of foreigners, working in oil companies. He works among them at present, eight priests.