Janusz (Januariusz Mikołaj) Bolonek (6 December 1938 – 2 March 2016) was a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See.

He was named an archbishop in 1989 and represented the Holy See in Uruguay, Bulgaria, Romania, and the Macedonia.

After studying at the local seminary he was ordained priest on 17 December 1961 in Łódź, Poland.

[2] His early assignments in the diplomatic service included stints in Nicaragua, the United States, and Egypt, and then at the Secretariat of State in Rome where he helped organize Pope John Paul's trips to Poland in 1983 and 1987 and worked on the commission negotiating the restoration of diplomatic relations between Poland and the Holy See.

[2] On 25 September 1989, Pope John Paul II named him a titular archbishop of Madaurus and apostolic pro-nuncio to the Côte d'Ivoire.