(ANS - Rome)- The 27^th General Chapter elected Fr Tadeusz Rozmus as Councillor for the new region of Central and Northern Europe. Fr Rozmus is at present Rector of the Salesian community of Perugia and was previously Provincial of Krakow in Poland.

Fr Rozmus was not present as a  member of the Chapter, so when the result of the voting was known, he had to be called by phone. He was on Retreat and when the Rector Major asked him if he accepted, his answer was: "If this is the will of the Chapter, I accept."

Tadeusz Rozmus was born on 29 April 1957 in Bielsko-Biala in Poland. He entered the novitiate of Kopiec in 1975, made his first profession there on 22 August 1976 and his perpetual profession at the Salesian house of San Tarcisio in Rome on 16 September 1984. He was ordained priest in Krakow on 18 June 1986.

He was Rector of the Salesian houses in Swietochlowice, San Callisto in Rome and Perugia, Provincial Councillor in the Province of Krakow from 1997 to 2000 and then Provincial  from 2000 to 2006. Last year he made ​​the Extraordinary Visitation of Austria on behalf of Fr Marek Chrzan.

Fr Rozmus will be Councillor for the new Region of Central and Northern Europe. As a result of the deliberations of GC27 on 22 March, the region includes: Austria, Belgium North, Croatia, Czech Republic, France-Southern Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Poland-Krakow, Poland-Pila, Poland-Warsaw, Poland-Wroclaw, Slovakia , Slovenia, and the special circumscription of Ukraine.

Published 28/03/2014