Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki, who served as a personal secretary to Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, has become Archbishop of Lviv, Ukraine. The Polish-born cleric was ordained to the priesthood for the Lviv archdiocese in 1987.
In 1996 he came to Rome to serve as second private secretary to Pope John Paul II; he remained in that post for the remainder of the pontificate and the first two years of Pope Benedict's reign.
During his service at the apostolic palace, the quiet Polish priest generally escaped public notice, while attention was fixed on the first secretaries: first Msgr. (now Cardinal) Stanislaw Dziwisz, who is now Archbishop of Krakow; and Msgr. Georg Ganswein, the German priest who was brought into the apostolic palace by Pope Benedict.
However he earned the full confidence of both pontiffs, and in July 2007 he was appointed by Pope Benedict to become coadjutor to Cardinal Marian Jaworski of Lviv: the same prelate who had recommended him for work at the Vatican.
With the retirement of Cardinal Jaworski, who is now 82, Archbishop Mokrzycki assumes full leadership of the Latin-rite Ukainian archdiocese.
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