At an Advent Retreat in the Parish of the Transfiguration of the Lord at Białogon in the Diocese of Kielce, Poland, Polish children prayed for the spiritual growth of the West African country of Ghana.
Delighted about Ghana, the children therefore remembered the West African country in their prayers and asked others to pray for the nation.
The Diocese of Kielce being the home Diocese of His Excellency Archbishop Henryk M. Jagodziński, Apostolic Nuncio to Ghana, the children did not pray only for Ghana, but also made Ghanaian flags on their own.
The Pastor of the Parish of the Transfiguration of the Lord, Rev. Fr. Stefan Radziszewski, was ordained together with the Nuncio as Priests in 1995.
Together with three other classmates of the Nuncio, Fr. Radziszewski in November this year paid a visit to the Apostolic Nuncio to Ghana during which they together placed flowers on the tomb of a Polish soldier at the Military cemetery in Accra on November 11, 2021, which coincided with the Polish Independence Day.
Fr. Radziszewski teaches religion at the School of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth in Kielce, a school where Sr. Angelina Fąfara who has been working several years at the Holy Family of Nazareth School at Yamfo in the Catholic Diocese of Sunyani, run by the Polish Sisters of this Congregation, also taught.
As an affirmation, Poland, the country of St. John Paul II, has many connections with Ghana. Although the two countries are geographically far away, the beauty of the Catholic Church and the profession of same faith have brought the two countries very close.
Archbishop Jagodziński was appointed by Pope Francis as the Apostolic Nuncio to Ghana on May 3, 2020 and arrived in Ghana on September 8, 2020.
From 2018 until his appointment as Apostolic Nuncio to Ghana, he served as First Counsellor in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.
Born on January 1, 1969, he was ordained a Priest on June 3, 1995, and was incardinated in the Kielce Diocese. He obtained a Doctorate Degree in Canon Law from the Pontifical University of Holy Cross, Rome in 2001, and in preparation for the Diplomatic Service, he studied at Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome from 1999 to 2OO1. He then entered the Diplomatic Service of the Holy See on July 1, 2OO1.
Having served at the Holy See Secretariat of State and Apostolic Nunciatures in Belorussia, Croatia, and India, Jagodziński, speaks Polish, his native language, Italian, French, English, Croatian, Russian and Spanish.
