613 Marian Stempel Secretary General
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NEW SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE SALESIANS
 
(ANS – Rome, 15 June 2002) – The Rector Major has appointed Fr Marian Stempel as the new Secretary General of the Salesian Congregation.
Fr Marian Stempel was born in Morag, Poland, in 1961; he did his novitiate and made his first religious profession in Czerwinsk in 1982, and his perpetual profession in Turin, in 1988. He did his studies of Theology in Rome. Ordained priest in Plock in 1989, he was Provincial Secretary in Warsaw from 1991 to 1996.
He was called to work at the Generalate in Rome and was secretary to the Regional Councillor for North Europe and Vice Rector of the community. He has a licentiate in Theology and speaks Italian, English and Russian in addition to Polish his mother tongue.
The new Secretary General succeeds Fr Francesco Maraccani who has been appointed Procurator General and Official Spokesman of the Salesians of Don Bosco