Józef Michalik (born April 20, 1941, in Zambrów) is a Polish Roman Catholic bishop, the diocesan Bishop of the Zielona Góra-Gorzów diocese in 1986-1993 (to 1992 of Gorzów), Archbishop of Przemyśl in 1993–2016, and the president of the Polish Episcopal Conference in 2004–2014.

[1] In 1994, he was elected chairman of the Commission for the Laity in the Council of European Episcopal Conferences (CCEE).

In a sermon in 2013 at Jasna Góra Monastery Michalik said "All the anti-Church media try to persuade us that the main theme of Pope Francis’s pronouncements is the wealth of the Church ...

[4][5] On February 15, 2007, Michalik, in an interview with Polish TV, Polish Press Agency PAP, IAR and the IAC, has reported that the Church Historical Commission on the basis of materials established by the Institute of National Remembrance IPN found that during the years 1975 to 1978 he was registered as an agent of the Communist secret police (SB) codenamed "Zephyr".

This comment was heavily criticised, and Michalik called a news conference to apologise, stating that he did not blame children who were victims of abuse.

[2][6] In October 2013 Michalik's online biography was discovered to contain an incorrect claim of an award granted by Cambridge University.