In the Heart of Tanzania
Fr. Jozef Musiol, born in Poland, is a member of the Society of the Divine Savior (S.D.S.), doctor of canon law (J.C.D.), member of the American Canon Law Society and Polish-American Priests Association, parish priest and judge in the Diocese of Austin, Texas.  After high school, he studied Philosophy and Theology in the Salvatorian Major Seminary in Bagno, and later in the Institute of Theology in Krakow, Poland. He was ordained a Catholic priest in Krakow in June 1972.  His first pastoral assignment was in Zakopane in Tatra Mountains, Poland. From 1973 to 1982, he worked as a missionary in Tanzania, East Africa, in different mission stations. In mid 1982 he moved to Rome, Italy where he studied Canon Law at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he obtained a licentiate and a doctorate in Canon Law.  He returned to Tanzania in mid-1989 and for four years was a professor of Canon and Liturgical Law in the Inter-Diocesan Major Seminary in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.  On arrival to the USA in the Fall of 1993, for one year he was an administrator of a parish in Brooklyn, New York. In 1994, he was transferred to the Salvatorian Community in Texas, and was appointed a judge of the Austin Diocese Tribunal and a pastor of various parishes.  In April 2003, he was elected a regional and local superior of the Polish Salvatorians in the USA and transferred to the Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Merrillville, Indiana. After finishing his term in office in the middle of 2006, he was appointed a vice-postulator for the Cause of Beatification of the Servant of God, Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan, the founder of the Salvatorians. He then moved to Savannah, Georgia to supervise a diocesan investigation of the cause.  In May 2007, he came back to the Salvatorian community in Texas. He was reappointed a pastor of a parish and a judge of the Diocese of Austin.