The plaque in the UO’s Collegium Maius lists 52 distinguished names of honorary doctors of our university.
Doctors honoris causa, which means ‘doctors for honour’ in Latin, are persons of particular merit in culture, the arts, science or politics. To celebrate these merits, universities confer academic honorary degrees on them.
According to the Regulations of the University of Opole, the title of an honorary doctor can receive a “creator of scientific, cultural and social achievements of outstanding rank, which set new and significant ways of understanding and reconciliation among people, cultures, communities, and nations, and which expand the horizons of knowledge or culture, and representing the common good of the importance to local or supralocal, as well as a person building a structural base for such actions.”
The title of an honorary doctor can be awarded to a person with no formal education but it should be kept in mind that it is usually bestowed on people with a high social or scholarly status.
The conferral of the title may be requested by the council of the faculty which is authorised to confer the postdoctoral degree. Once the candidature has been approved by the evaluation committee and the senate, a procedure follows, the final outcome of which is an official ceremony that includes the awarding of an honorary doctorate and the delivery of special addresses.
Honorary Doctorates conferred by the Higher School of Pedagogy:
Honorary Doctorates conferred by the University of Opole:
Archbishop Alfons Nossol
18 May 1995
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Jerzy Pośpiech
Gerhard Nickel
22 October 1996
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Franciszek Marek
Kazimierz Kutz
10 March 1997
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Marian Marek Drozdowski
Stanisław Lem
8 December 1997
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Wiesław Łukaszewski
Ryszard Kaczorowski
10 March 1998
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Stanisław Sławomir Nicieja
Wojciech Kilar
10 March 1998
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Stanisław Sławomir Nicieja
Tadeusz Różewicz
10 March 2000
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Dorota Simonides
Janusz Tazbir
10 March 2000
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Stanisław Gajda
Adam Hanuszkiewicz
9 March. 2001
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Piotr Obrączka
Wojciech Wrzesiński
17 May 2001
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Stanisław S. Nicieja
Jaroslav Panek
17 May 2001
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Jan Seredyka
Cardinal Miloslav Vlk
24 January 2002
Laudator: Rev. prof. dr hab. Kazimierz Dola
Cardinal Karl Lehmann
24 January 2002
Laudator: Rev. prof. dr hab. Helmut Sobeczko
Zbigniew Religa
11 March 2002
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Stanisław Sławomir Nicieja
Hendrik Foth
11 March 2002
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Stanisław Sławomir Nicieja
Michał Głowiński
10 March 2003
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Zdzisław Piasecki
Kazimierz Polański
10 March 2003
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Stanisław Gajda
Pope John Paul II
17 February 2004
Laudator: Rev. prof. dr hab. Helmut Sobeczko
Zbigniew Kwieciński
22 April 2004
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Teresa Borowska
Tadeusz Lewowicki
22 April 2004
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Józefa Brągiel
Jacek Fisiak
10 March 2005
Laudator: dr hab. Andrzej Ciuk, prof. UO
Hubert Orłowski
10 March 2005
Laudator: dr hab. prof. UO Maria Katarzyna Lasatowicz
Jan Miodek
10 March 2006
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Bogusław Wyderka
Jerzy Janicki
10 March 2006
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Stanisław Sławomir Nicieja
Hans-Gert Pöttering
10 March 2007
Laudator: Rev. prof. dr hab. Stanisław Rabiej
Cardinal Walter Kasper
10 March 2007
Laudator: Rev. prof. dr hab. Piotr Jaskóła
Władysław Bartoszewski
10 March 2008
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Stanisław Sławomir Nicieja
Dorota Simonides
10 March 2008
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Piotr Kowalski
Ryszard Nycz
6 June 2008
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Irena Jokiel
Wiesław Myśliwski
10 March 2009
Laudator: dr hab. prof. UO Elżbieta Dąbrowska
prof. dr hab. Henryk Samsonowicz
10 March 2009
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Stanisław Sławomir Nicieja
prof. Krzysztof Zanussi
5 March 2010
Laudator: Rev. dr hab. Marek Lis
Lech Wałęsa
10 March 2011
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Teresa Kulak
Rolf Fieguth
10 July 2012
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Alina Nowicka-Jeżowa
Byung Kwon Cheong
10 July 2012
Laudator: dr hab. prof. UO Dorota Brzozowska
Daniel Olbrychski
11 March 2013
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Stanisław Sławomir Nicieja
Fr. Wacław Hryniewicz
30 October 2014
Laudator: Rev. prof. dr hab. Piotr Jaskóła
Fr. Stanisław Celestyn Napiórkowski
30 October 2014
Laudator: Rev. Bp dr hab. prof. UO Andrzej Czaja
Franciszek Grucza
10 March 2015
Laudator: dr hab. prof. UO Maria Katarzyna Lasatowicz
Marceli Kosman
10 March 2017
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Stanisław Sławomir Nicieja
Tomasz Szarota
10 March 2017
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Stanisław Sławomir Nicieja
Franciszek Kokot
11 October 2017
Laudator: prof. dr hab. n. med. Marian Zembala
Paweł Kafarski
9 March 2018
Laudator: dr hab. prof. UO Jacek Lipok
Lech Borowiec
10 March 2020
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Zatwarnicki
Jana Hoffmannova
10 March 2022
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Jolanta Nocoń
Julian Kornhauser
10 March 2022
Laudator: dr hab. prof. UO Adrian Gleń
Rev. Cardinal Kurt Koch
3 June 2022
Laudator: ks. prof. dr hab. prof. dr hab. Zygfryd Glaeser
Andrzej Antoszewski
10 March 2023
Laudator: prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Zuba
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