Bogusław Dąbrowski

Bogusław Dąbrowski (born October 20, 1966) is a Polish theologist, writer and Franciscan priest. He was a pioneer and co-founder of the Franciscan mission in Uganda in 2001.

Education
Dąbrowski completed a five-year construction technical school in Nowy Sącz. In 1993, he defended his master's thesis at the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Krakow (currently JPII University) under the supervision of Fr. prof. dr hab. Józef Makselon. He undertook postgraduate studies at the Catholic University of Lublin in the field of psychology and psychotherapy under the supervision of Fr. Professor Władysław Prężyna, which he completed with the work Psychotherapeutic activity of a prison chaplain based on his own research. In 2013, he defended his doctorate at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, written under the supervision of Professor Jarosław Różański.

Career
Since 1986, he has been a member of the Order of Conventual Franciscans of the Krakow Province, dedicated to St. Antoni Padewski and Blessed Jakub Strzemię. In the same year, he was ordained a priest and was sent to parish work in Przemyśl, where, among others, he was the chaplain of the Penitentiary until 1998. In the years 1998-2000 he was the provincial assistant for vocations in the Order.

Bogusław has the qualifications of a ski instructor and kayaking leader, which he used to work with young people by organizing numerous retreats and camps in the bosom of nature. In 2000, he organized the National Cycling Pilgrimage to Rome under the patronage of the Speaker of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, Maciej Płażyński and Cardinal Franciszek Macharski.

In 2001, he went to the bush village of Kakooge, where he was a pioneer and co-founder of the Franciscan mission in Uganda. He worked at the mission in Uganda until September 2020. Since 2021, he has been working at Our Lady of the Angels Province USA as a confessor at the Sanctuary of St. Anthony in Ellicott City and for the Franciscan Missionary Society as a missionary preacher. Additionally, he celebrates masses at St. Joseph Nursing Home and Mount de Sales Academy in Catonsville.

Books and articles
Dąbrowskiis the author of books on African themes: "Burn the Passport" (2015) and "Breath of the Sun" (2021) published by Zysk i S-ka Publishing House. The first book is translated into English "Burn the passport" (published in 2022). Father Bogusław is a member of the Franciscan Scientific Society. He published articles in the following magazines: "Droga", "Bratni Zew", "Posłaniec św. Antoniego” and “Wychowawca”.

His scientific publications are:

Perception of suffering and attitude towards euthanasia based on medical staff's own research. Pontifical Academy of Theology, Kraków, 1993, pp. 120.

The specificity of inculturation evangelization of the Baganda ethnic group on the example of the Kasana-Luweero diocese, UKSW, Warsaw 2014, pp. 320.

Franciscan retreat with nature, article in the Bulletin of the Ecological Movement of St. Francis of Assisi - REFA Green Notebook 2000, Kraków, pp. 32–34.

"History of the mission of the Conventual Franciscans in Uganda," article in Zeszyty Misjologiczne "Lumen Gentium, issue 2 / Warsaw 2011, pp. 151-169.

Problems of loneliness in monastic life, article in "Consecrated Life", May–June 3 (137) 2019, Wrocław, pp. 133–137.

Twenty years of the existence of the mission of the Conventual Franciscans in Uganda, " article in "Nurt Franciszkański" in issue 28 (2022), Kraków, pp. 111–130.