Janusz Kotański


Janusz Andrzej Kotański is a Polish historian and teacher. He served as the Polish ambassador to the Holy See from 2016 to 2022.

Life

Janusz Kotański was born in 1957 in Warsaw, Poland. In 1983, he has earned his master's degree from the University of Warsaw, Faculty of History. He has been studying also law.
He was working as a high school teacher and as a specialist at the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, as well as at the Polish Information Agency and as a historian at the Institute of National Remembrance and at the Museum of John Paul II and Primate Wyszyński.
In 2016, he was nominated ambassador to the Holy See, accredited also to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. He presented his credentials to Pope Francis on 23 June 2016. He ended his term on 15 May 2022.
He is married.

Works

Polacy w ZSRR 1917–1947, Warszawa 1990Wiersze, Warszawa 1991Krym i inne wiersze, Kraków 199344 wiersze, Warszawa 1999Ksiądz Jerzy Popiełuszko, Warszawa 2004, 2010Kropla, Warszawa 2006Czas przemian 1979–1989. Znaczenie pierwszych trzech pielgrzymek Jana Pawła II do Ojczyzny, Warszawa 2010Nic niemożliwego, Warszawa 2011Prymas Stefan Wyszyński w służbie Bogu, człowiekowi i narodowi, Warszawa 2011Głos, Warszawa: Fronda PL 2014