He began his high school education at Chełmno and completed it in 1904 at the Collegium Leoninum at Wejherowo, where one of his classmates was the future German SS general Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski.
Later that year he began studies at the Pelplin Higher Seminary (Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne w Pelplinie) and, on 23 February 1908, he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest.
Wrycza served a number of parishes between his ordination and the beginning of the First World War, and remained a fully committed Roman Catholic priest until his death.
He also found time to promote the Kashubian language and culture, including a 1935 edition of Hieronim Derdowski's 1884 poem Jasiek na Knieji ("Johnny from the Forest").
[7] Despite the German Army's best efforts to locate the so-called "priest general," Wrycza remained safely at the small hamlet of Czarna Dąbrowa near Bytow for the duration of the war.