Bishop Socha was born in the Roman Catholic family in a present day Masovian Voivodeship.
After graduation of the school education, joined the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentian Fathers) in 1951;[1] he made a solemn profession on 8 December 1956, and was ordained as priest on 22 May 1958,[2] after graduation of the Major Vincentians Theological Seminary in Kraków, Poland and a Fundamental Theology at the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland.
[1] After his ordination he was engaged in the pastoral and missionary work and from 1962 he was a professor at the Major Theological Seminary in Gościkowo-Paradyż.
Simultaneously he continued to study in the Catholic University of Lublin with obtaining a Doctor of Theology degree in 1969.
On 26 December 1973 he was consecrated as bishop by Cardinal Karol Wojtyła, future Pope John Paul II, and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church.