Vice-rector for administration
Rev. Prof. Dr. habil. Mirosław Sitarz

Date of birth
21 June, 1964, Bilgoraj

Education
1971 - 1979, Elementary School in Tereszpol
1979 - 1983, High School in Jozefow
1983 - 1988, Higher Theological Seminary in Lublin
1988 - master thesis at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Lublin, entitled The Mission of the Church to the Nation according to Primate Wyszyński
1992 - 1995, Faculty of Canon and Secular Law of the Catholic University of Lublin
1995, master degree in canon law
1998, doctoral dissertation entitled The College of Consultors in the 1983 Code of Canon Law and in Particular Polish Law. Doctor of Juridical Sciences in Canon Law.
2009, habilitation on the basis of his general academic achievements and his dissertation entitled Competence of Collegial Bodies in the Particular Church in the Exercise of Executive Authority according to the 1983 Code of Canon Law
2020, professor of social sciences in the discipline of canon law

Employment
1996, Department of Church Public and Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Canon and Secular Law of the Catholic University of Lublin
1998–2004, adjunct professor and chaplain at the Lazarski School of Commerce and Law in Warsaw
1999–2001, vice-dean of the Faculty of Law at the Lazarski School of Commerce and Law in Warsaw
2004–2008, adjunct at the Faculty of Law at the Helena Chodkowska School of Management and Law in Warsaw
2009–2014, professor at the Helena Chodkowska School of Management and Law in Warsaw
since 2009, head of the Department of Ecclesiastical Public and Constitutional Law at the Catholic University of Lublin
2020, vice rector for administration

Pastoral activities
1988, ordained to the presbyterate
1988-1990, parish of St. Nicholas in Szczebrzeszyn
1990-1992, parish of St. Nicholas in Lublin
1992-1995, Pastoral Department and Archdiocesan Visitator in the Metropolitan Curia in Lublin,
all Saints Rectoral Church in Lublin
1994-1997, editor of the Lublin edition of the Catholic Weekly "Sunday"

Academic interests
specializes primarily in the constitutional law of the Church, the theory of ecclesiastical law and the principles of the relationship between the Church and the State
Current research:
constitutional Church law

International cooperation:
Faculty of Law of Trnava University of Trnava
Theological Institute of Saint Archbishop Joseph Bilczewski in Lviv
active member of Consociatio Internationalis Iuris Canonici Promovendo

Publications:
more than 500 publications, some of which have been translated into English, Czech, French, Slovak, Ukrainian and Italian
Selected publications Kolegium konsultorów w KPK/1983 i w partykularnym prawie polskim, Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL, Lublin 1999 Dictionary of Canon Law, Instytut Wydawniczy "Pax", Warsaw 2004 Kompetencje organów kolegialnych w Kościele partykularnym w sprawowaniu władzy wykonawczej według Kodeksu Prawa Kanonicznego z 1983 roku, Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL, Lublin 2008
Catholic Principles of the State-Church Relationship and Polish Law (eds. jointly with Jozef Krukowski and Henryk Stawniak), Scientific Society of the Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin 2015

Activity in scientific associations, editorial boards and committees
A member of 7 national and foreign scientific organizations and associations, and is active in contributing to scientific journals.

Scientific conferences, workshops, exibitions
270 - scientific conferences of national and international scope in Poland and abroad, during which he delivered 77 papers, communications, laudations and presentations. He has promoted more than 100 master's and 18 doctoral degrees in legal sciences. He has participated in more than 50 doctoral committees. He has been a reviewer of 15 doctoral dissertations and a reviewer in 8 habilitation proceedings.

Teaching activity and student supervision
scientific supervision and training of young staff, promotion of more than 100 master's and 18 doctoral degrees in legal sciences, participation in more than 50 doctoral committees, revition of 15 doctoral dissertations and participation in 8 habilitation proceedings

Awards
Bronze Medal for long service (2012).
Bronze Cross of Merit for meritorious activity in the development of science (2021)