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Waldemar Chrostowski is a Polish Catholic priest, professor of theology, biblical scholar, senior adviser to the Council of the Polish Episcopate for Religious Dialogue, professor at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, and chairman of the Association of Polish Bible Exegetes. He is one of Poland’s most important publicists and intellectuals and enjoys an enormous audience. Until 1998, he was also co-chairman of the Polish Council of Christians and Jews, the official dialogue forum of Christians and Jews in Poland. He is a member of the Committee of Theological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the author of more than two thousand popular scientific publications. From 1978 to 1983, Chrostowski studied at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, and from 1979 to 1980, he studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 1990 to 2000, Chrostowski was a member of the International Council of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. In 1991, he was one of the founders of the Polish Council of Christians and Jews. Pope Benedict XVI appointed him a member of the group of experts of the Twelfth Ordinary Assembly of the Catholic Synod of Bishops, which was held in October 2008 at the Vatican. In 2014, Chrostowski won the Joseph Ratzinger Prize, often called the “Nobel Prize for Catholic theology.”
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