Notes on Contributors Ecumeny and Law 1, 225-232 2013 Notes on Contributors Leszek Stanisław Adamowicz, Professor KUL, head of the Department of Law of the Eastern Catholic Churches at the Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lub‑ lin (KUL). Born in 1960 in Zamość, since 1984 he has been a priest of the Archdiocese of Lublin. He studied at KUL (theology and canon law) and the papal universities in Rome; since 1990 he has been an academic teacher at Catholic University, since 2004 head of the department, asso‑ ciate professor since 2005, since 2011 head of Institute of Canon Law. Since the academic year 2005—2006 visiting professor at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome. His major occupation is the Eastern Catholic Church Law and the law of non‑Catholic communities. The translator into Polish of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, a member of the Polish Bishops’ Conference Team for Dialogue with Greek‑Catholic Church in Ukraine and consultant of the Legal Council of Polish Bishops’ Conference, a member of the Polish Canon Law Society, Polish Society of the Ecclesiastical Law and International Society of Eastern Canon Law. Paweł Bortkiewicz TChr, Professor, PhD, born in 1958 in Jelenia Góra. Brother in the Society of Christ Fathers since 1977, affiliated with the city of Poznań. His studies took place at the Higher Theological Seminary of the Society of Christ Fathers in the years 1977—1983. He defended his Master’s as well as PhD thesis (1983) in the John Paul II Catholic Uni‑ versity of Lublin. His postdoctoral degree was conferred by the Academy of Catholic Theology in 1994 on the basis of a work on the axiology of attitude of Poles in Soviet labour camps (Observing Moral Values in Criti‑ cal Situations. Study on the basis of Polish Labour Camp Diary Literature). In 1998—2002 and from 2008 to 2011 Deputy Dean of the Department 226 Notes on Contributors of Theology of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 2002—2008 dean of that Department. Since 2002 the President of the Ethics Centre of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań; and since 2003, a mem‑ ber of the Committee on Theological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He supervises the Institute of Catholic Social Teaching of the Department of Theology of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań — the institute the establishment of which he initiated. Since 2003 he has been giving lectures on the theory of social policy and ethics at the College of Social and Media Culture in Toruń. He has also been giving lectures (since 2005) at the Tourism and Recreation Faculty of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and since 2007 lectures on ethics at the Doctoral College of the Poznań University of Technology. Author of sev‑ eral books, a dozen or so articles, and many popularizing articles. Józef Budniak, Professor, PhD; University of Silesia in Katowice, Fac‑ ulty of Theology, and Institute of Missiology and Ecumenical Theology and Faculty of Ethnology and Sciences of Education; commission chair‑ man for ecumenism in the diocese of Bielsko‑Żywiec; former Deputy Dean for Foreign Exchange in the Faculty of Ethnology and Sciences of Educa‑ tion at the University of Silesia; in the years 1992—2000, president of International Ecumenical Fellowship; former chairman for Polish ‑Czech and Polish ‑Slovak Relationships Commission affiliated to Polish Academy of Science, Katowice branch; chairman of the Society of Theologians of Ecumenism. His total work includes 134 academic and popular academic works, among them: 102 academic papers, 5 books and 27 popular aca‑ demic publications. He participated in Polish and foreign academic con‑ ferences giving 119 lectures. Moreover, he was an editor or co ‑editor of 12 multi ‑author works. He was also a referee of 32 books and academic papers. Finally, he organized 17 academic conferences and 1 international ecumenical congress. František Čitbaj, born on 22 January 1957 in Prešov. He is a Greek‑ ‑Catholic priest who works as a docent at the Greek Catholic Theological Faculty of Prešov University. František is a member of the Slovak Presi‑ dency of Canon Law and also works as an ecclesiastical judge. His inter‑ ests are mediation and dealing with voluntary settlements. His theological studies took place at the Roman Catholic Theological Faculty, University of Komenský in Bratislava (MA in 1996), and his legal education was obtained at the Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Master’s degree in 1998, cum summa laudis; JCDr. degree in 2005, and PhD in 2007). In 2011 he was granted habilitation at the Greek ‑Catholic Theological Faculty of Prešov Notes on Contributors 227 University, based on a thesis entitled General Institutions of Marriage in a New Law of the Latin Church and the Law of the Eastern Catho‑ lic Churches. For many years he worked in the field of pastoral practice. From 1999 to 2009 he had been working as a judicial vicar for Bishop Mons. Milan Chautur, CSsR Kosice Eparchial Bishop. Temporarily served as a judicial vicar of the Archbishop of Prešov Mons. John Babjak, SJ. In his teaching and research activities he is dealing with the Law of the East‑ ern Catholic Churches, the Roman Law, confessional law and issues of Catholic ecumenism. Pavol Dancák, Professor, PhD, born on 4 May 1965 in Bardejov (Slo‑ vakia). He graduated from the study of theology at the Cyril and Metho‑ dius Roman Catholic Theological Faculty in Bratislava in 1988 and in the same year he received the priest’s ordination. He worked as a parish priest and in 1996 he was appointed as a censor in beatification of Bishop Paul Peter Gojdič, and later also in the process of beatification of Bishop ThDr. Vasil Hopko. In 1995 he began to study philosophy at the Philosophical Faculty of Papal Theological Academy in Cracow. In 2001, under super‑ vision of Professor dr hab. Karol Tarnowski, he defended post ‑graduate degree based on a dissertation The Issue of Education in Teaching of John Paul II. On 27 April 2005, he habilitated in the history of philosophy with a book Historical and philosophical reflections of paideia in works of Karol Wojtyła, at the Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov in Prešov and on 29 January 2011 he was appointed a History of Philosophy Professor. On 1 August 2002 he was employed as Vice Dean for Development and External Relations, Greek Catholic Theological Faculty of University of Prešov in Prešov, and currently he is the head of Department of Philoso‑ phy and Religion. He is a member of the Scientific Council of GTF UP in Prešov and the Scientific Council of the University of Health and Social Work St. Elizabeth in Bratislava. Nicolae V. Dură Professor, JD, born in 1945 in Romania. He obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Theology in the Theological Insti‑ tute of University Rank in Bucharest; followed by PhD in Canon Law (1981) at the same university after performing his PhD studies and research in the field of Canon Law in Ethiopia; doctoral and postdoctoral studies and research in France (Catholic Institute and Sorbonne University in Paris) and in Greece (Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki). In 1997 he obtained a degree of Doctor in Canon Law at the Pontifical University of Toulouse (France), and in 2002 — Doctor Honoris Causa granted by the Humanist Sciences, University of Ostrog (Ukraine); 2010 — Doctor Honoris Causa — University St. Kliment Ohridski of Sofia (Bulgaria). Pro‑ 228 Notes on Contributors fessor of Theological Institute of University Rank in Bucharest (1976— 2001) and Professor at the Faculty of Law and Faculty of Theology of the Ovidius University in Constanta (2001—). Vice Dean (for Education and Research) of the Faculty of Law, Ovidius University of Constanta (2004—2008); Vice Rector of the “Ovidius” University for Inter ‑university Relations and Foreign Students (2008—2012). During his academic life, he was awarded the following prizes: the “National Order of Merit” (ver‑ sion the Legion of Honour, Cultural Merit) in 2001 by the President of France, Jacques Chirac, proposed by the minister of foreign affairs for his contribution to the promotion of the French language and European cul‑ ture due his, over ‑1,000 ‑pages book “Le Régime de la synodalité selon la législation canonique, conciliaire, oecuménique, du Ier millénaire, published in Bucharest in 1999; A.D. Xenopol Award granted by Romanian Acad‑ emy in 2001, etc. He is the author of books, studies and articles (on theol‑ ogy, canon law, law, history, ecclesiology, the history of ancient literature, philosophy, etc.), amounting to thousands of pages published in different languages. Ginter Dzierżon, Professor, JD, born in 1959, priest in the Gliwice diocese, head of the Common Norms Department at the Faculty of Canon Law at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. He obtained his PhD in 1998 at the Academy of Catholic Theology in War‑ saw; later beginning his tenure at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński Univer‑ sity in Warsaw. In 2010 he was conferred full professorship. Author of over 100 works on marriage law, common norms of canon law, as well as on theory of law, including five books (in Polish): “Consensual Ina‑ bility to Contract Canonical Marriage” (Warsaw 2001) co‑authored with W. Góralski, “Inability to Contract Marriage as a Canonical Category” (Warsaw 2001), “Nullity of Marriage Contracted by Means of Deception” (Warsaw 2004) co‑authorship with W. Góralski, “Evolution of Doctrine and Discipline Pertaining to the Obstacle of ‘Difference of Religion’ in the Canonical Legal Order” (Warsaw 2008), “Consigning an Ecclesiastical Office through Election. Comments on Regulations listed in the I Book of the Code of Canon Law.” Tomasz Gałkowski CP, Professor UKSW, born in 1967, he graduated from the Pontifical Faculty of Thelogy “Bobolanum”: SJ in Warsaw.