The current Apostolic Vicar of Europe is His Eminence, Jan Cardinal Głowacz, originally from Poland. Cardinal Jan Głowacz was ordained a deacon by Cardinal Gerard Imbert on February 11, 2024, thus beginning his ministry. On the same day, he was appointed Chancellor of our vicariate by Cardinal Antonius de Coratiae, then Apostolic Vicar of Europe. A month later, on March 17, 2024, on the Fifth Sunday of Lent, also by Cardinal Imbert, he was ordained a priest, truly beginning his priestly ministry. Meanwhile, on June 8 of that same year, he earned a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University. The then Msgr. Jan Głowacz received episcopal consecration together with Msgr. Lorenzo Moretti and Msgr. Anan Youngparset on May 29, 2025, by Cardinal Gerard Imbert, the principal consecrator, and Vincente Cardinal Alvarez, the first co-consecrator, and Alessandro Cardinal Carrnaza, the second co-consecrator. His coat of arms bears the words "Christo Portas Aperite." Meanwhile, his role in the Vicariate was changed to Vicar General. On November 30, 2025, he was appointed Prefect of the Dicastery for the Clergy, a position he continues to hold (despite the change of pontificate, the Holy Father did not change it). On January 19, 2026, he was nominated by Pope Pius XVI as Apostolic Vicar of Europe, and on February 8, he was officially introduced and installed by Bishop Wiktor Krajewski at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, the Cathedral of the Apostolic Vicariate of Europe . Nominated Cardinal Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo by His Holiness Pius XVI, March 18, 2026.