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Ordained a priest in June 2006 by H. E. Jorge Cardinal Medina Estévez, Fr. Andrzej Komorowski ministered in various apostolates of the Fraternity in Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands. He is elected as FSSP Superior General for the next six years.
Ordained a priest in June 2006 by H. E. Jorge Cardinal Medina Estévez, Fr. Andrzej Komorowski ministered in various apostolates of the Fraternity in Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands. He is elected as FSSP Superior General for the next six years. Courtesy of FSSP

Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter elects new superior general

By  Catholic News Agency
  • July 12, 2018
LINCOLN, Neb. – The general chapter of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, a society of apostolic life which celebrates the extraordinary form of the Roman rite, on Monday elected Fr. Andrzej Komorowski as its next superior general.


The July 9 election was made at the FSSP's Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary in Denton, Neb., about 10 miles southwest of Lincoln. The general chapter is being held July 3-18.

Fr. Komorowski was born in Poland in 1975, and studied economics at the University of Pozna?. He then joined the FSSP's European seminary, St. Peter's Seminary in Wigratzbad, Germany, and was ordained a priest in 2006.

He has ministered at FSSP apostolates in Poland, Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. He has served as assistant of the superior general since 2012, and as general bursar.

Fr. Komorowski succeeds Fr. John Berg as superior general of the FSSP, and is the fourth man to the hold that position.

The FSSP forms priests for the use of the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite, and having formed them, deploys priests in parishes for the service of the Church.

The priestly fraternity was founded in 1988 by 12 priests of the Society of St. Pius X. The founders left the SSPX to establish the FSSP after the society's leader, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, consecrated four bishops without the permission of St. John Paul II.

There are currently almost 287 priests and 150 seminarians in the fraternity. It has parishes and chapels in North America, Europe, Oceania, Nigeria, and Colombia.
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