Wacław Józef Świerzawski (14 May 1927 – 7 October 2017) was a Roman Catholic bishop and professor.

Świerzawski was born in Złoczów, Poland (now Zolochiv, Ukraine).

He was ordained to the priesthood on 11 December 1949;[1] he received a master's degree in theology from Jagiellonian University and one in canon law from the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw, in addition to a doctorate from the College of Sant'Anselmo in 1968.

In 1981, he was appointed associate professor of the Pontifical Faculty of Theology; he was later given tenure in 1988.

[2] He would serve as Chair of Homiletics at the Metropolitan Seminary of Kraków between 1975 and 1986.