Joseph Dabrowski (born 1964)

Joseph Andrzej Dabrowski CSMA (born July 17, 1964) is a Polish-Canadian prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as the 14th Bishop of the Diocese of Charlottetown since June 29, 2023.

[1][2] Dabrowski was born in Wysoka Strzyżowska, Poland, and completed secondary school at the minor seminary of the Congregation of Saint Michael the Archangel.

Inspired by his uncle, a Catholic priest, Dabrowski began seminary studies at the San Pietro Theological Institute in Viterbo, and was awarded a masters degree in philosophy and theology by the Pontificial Athenaeum of St. Anselm, and was ordained to the priesthood on May 4, 1991 by Divo Zadi, bishop of Civita Castellana.

[3][4] Joseph Dabrowski served as associate pastor at Our Lady of Częstochowa church until 1993, when he became chaplain of Cardinal Carter High School.

[5] He served as adjunct spiritual director to St. Peter's Seminary from 2002 to 2003, and became North American superior of the Warsaw-based Congregation of Saint Michael the Archangel on June 19, 2013.

St. Mary's Church, where Dabrowski served from 1998 to 2015.