Father General Arturo Sosa has appointed Fr Mateusz Janyga as the new Provincial of the Province of Southern Poland of the Society of Jesus, one of the 15 provinces and 1 region that conforms the JCEP.

Born in 1978 in Wodzisław Śląski, Fr Janyga completed his secondary education in Rybnik before pursuing studies at AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, where he earned a Master of Engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunications. After working in the IT industry for one year, Fr Janyga entered the Society of Jesus in Stara Wieś in 2003. After completing his novitiate, he went on to study philosophy at Ignatianum in Kraków (2005-2007). His formation continued with a two-year pastoral internship in New York, where he served as a mathematics and religion teacher at Brooklyn Jesuit Prep, a Jesuit school serving underprivileged children.

Fr Janyga pursued theological studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (2009-2012), Palacký University in Olomouc (2012-2013), and the Collegium Bobolanum of the Catholic Academy in Warsaw, where he earned a master’s degree in theology. He was ordained a priest on June 29, 2013, in Kraków.

Throughout his priestly ministry, Fr Janyga has served in parishes in Český Těšín (2013-2015) and Gliwice (2015-2020). He completed his Tertianship in Nairobi, Kenya (2021), and pronounced his Final Vows in Gliwice in 2023. For the past five years, he has served as superior of the community and director of the Jesuit Public Elementary School in Mysłowice.

Fr Janyga will begin his new role as Provincial on 31 July 2026.