Oblate Youth Canada

Fr. Piotr Nowak OMI

Associate Pastor

Fr. Marcin Serwin OMI

Associate Pastor

Fr. Marcin was born on March 29th, 1986. After completing his high school and further studies at the minor seminary he entered the Oblate novitiate. The next stages of his priestly formation were philosophical, theological and biblical studies. His first place of pastoral ministry was eastern Madagascar, and later various ministries in Rome, Italy  and Toronto, Canada. He was ordained a priest on June 7th 2012 by bishop Douglas Crosby OMI. Since fall of 2015 he serves as associate pastor at St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish. He serves in various ministries and continues his studies on an ongoing basis.

Fr. Jan Kobzan OMI

Associate Pastor

Sr. Halina Pierożak MChR

Sr. Halina was born on June 21, 1977. In 1996, she began her religious formation in the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of Christ the King for the Polish Diaspora Abroad in Poznań. She made her first vows in 1999 and her perpetual profession in 2004. In the years 1999-2009 she worked in religious houses of the Congregation in Poland. She graduated from theological studies in Poznań. In 2009, she left to work among the Polish community in Greece. She catechized children and youth at the School at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Athens and worked in the parish of the Heart of Christ the Savior. In 2016, she started a Polish diaspora mission in Great Britain in the parish of St. John the Evangelist in London-Putney and the Polish Saturday school Putney-Wimbledon. Then she worked in the north of England in Morecambe and Blackburn and in Polish schools in Blackburn and Accrington. In 2020 Sr. Halina was sent to work in Canada. Due to pandemic disruptions, she arrived in Mississauga in May 2021.