 Bishop Zmitrowicz was born in the Roman-Catholic family in the suburb of Gdańsk.After graduation from the school and lyceum education, he joined the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in 1981; he made a solemn profession on May 21, 1987, and was ordained as priest on June 17, 1989, after graduation from the Major Missionary Oblates Theological Seminary in Obra, Poland, and Theological faculty of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.After his ordination he served in the different Missionary Oblates institutions in Poland from 1989 until 1997, when he was transferred to Turkmenistan in the newly created Mission sui iuris of Turkmenistan.