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Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis has appointed the Rev. Fr. Marek Ochlak, O.M.I., currently Provincial Superior of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Poland, as Bishop of the Diocese of Fenoarivo Atsinanana (Madagascar),.
His Exc. Msgr. Marek Ochlak, O.M.I., was born on March 14, 1966 in Nowe Miasto Lubawskie (Poland). He entered the Congregation of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate and attended the O.M.I. Minor Seminary in Markowice and novitiate in Koderi. He received his philosophical and theological formation in the O.M.I. Major Seminary in Obra. He made his perpetual profession in 1990 and was ordained a priest in 1992.
He has held the following positions: Parish assistant of St. Eugène de Mazenod in Kędzierzyn-Koźle, Poland (1992-1994); preparation for the mission in Madagascar in France (1994-1995); Missionary in the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Toamasina (1995-2002); Head of the Apostleship of the Sea (2002-2006); Parish priest of Notre-Dame de Lourdes (2006-2009); Assistant in the Council of the O.M.I. Delegation, in Madagascar (1995-2008); Superior of the O.M.I. Delegation in Madagascar (2009-2015); Parish Priest of Befasy, Diocese of Morondava (2016-2021); In charge of the missions in the Province of Poland (2021-2022). Since 10 January 2023 he has been Provincial Superior of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Poland. (Agenzia Fides, 17/4/2025)
