[1][2] Josef Nuzík was born on 25 July 1966, in Strání, Czechoslovakia and raised in a family of 11 children.

After finishing vocational school in 1984, he worked at an engineering company and went through compulsory military service.

In 1989 he started his preparation for the priesthood at a theological faculty in Litoměřice and later in Olomouc, where he was awarded a master's degree.

[3][4] He was ordained a deacon in 1994, served in Nový Jičín, and stayed in this parish also after the priestly ordination by Archbishop Jan Graubner in June 1995.

Archbishop Graubner appointed him his vicar general in 2009, he is also a canon of the Metropolitan Chapter of St. Wenceslaus in Olomouc.