Tadeusz Pieronek

Pieronek was born to Polish parents in the Żywiec Beskids village of Radziechowy in interbellum Poland.

Ordained a priest in 1957 under the communist regime, from 1951 to 1954 he studied at the Theological Faculty of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, then after its dissolution by the Communist government at the major seminary of the archdiocese of Kraków, from 1956 until 1960 at the Faculty of Canon Law at the Catholic University of Lublin.

In his later years, Pieronek supported the social project of the Children's Hospice "Father Józef Tischner" in the city of Kraków.

[1] In an interview in 2010, Pieronek claimed that Jews and the state of Israel "exploit" the Holocaust, which he labelled as such a "Jewish invention", but a crime he did not statistically or historically deny.

[3] In the interview he said that recent Israeli and Jewish claims that Poland is antisemitic and might consider reparation payments to Jewish Holocaust survivors, were calumnious, ridiculous and a falsification of the complex history of Polish society; simultaneously Pieronek stated, that western and U.S. media and politics are dominated by Jews.