In June 2015, the Vatican announced he would stand trial on charges of possessing child pornography, for which he faced a possible prison term.
He was ordained a Catholic priest in Kraków on 21 May 1972 by Cardinal Karol Wojtyła, the future Pope John Paul II.
[1] Pope John Paul II appointed him a titular archbishop and apostolic nuncio to Bolivia on 3 November 1999 and consecrated him a bishop on 6 January 2000.
In 2002, Pope John Paul appointed him nuncio to four Central Asian countries: Kazakhstan and Tajikistan on 16 February,[1] Kyrgyzstan on 6 July,[3] and Uzbekistan on 6 November.
Initial news reports from Italy attributed the departure of Wesołowski to a three-year dispute between the latter and Roberto González Nieves, Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico.
[7] On 2 September 2013, Dominican investigative journalist Nuria Piera reported that Wesołowski had been dismissed because he was involved in the sexual abuse of minors.
[9] The next day, Agripino Núñez Collado, Rector of the Pontifical Catholic University Mother and Teacher, said that Wesołowski had been recalled to the Vatican because of child abuse allegations.
[10][11] A spokesman for the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Dominican Republic then disavowed Núñez Collado's statement and called Wesołowski's summons to Rome "routine".
A Vatican spokesperson denied that child abuse itself was the basis for the recall,[11] but said the allegations were serious enough to suspend Wesołowski during the investigation.
[28] Gian Piero Milano, the Vatican's Promoter of Justice, and Francisco Domínguez Brito, the Attorney General of the Dominican Republic, discussed Wesołowski's case before Pope Francis met with Dominguez Brito on December 3, who told the Pope he and Milano had "looked into the procedures, legal competencies and steps to follow, in line with Vatican criminal procedures".
[29] Wesołowski was indicted in June 2015 by a Vatican prosecutor for possessing child pornography, with a trial date set for 11 July.