Woroniecki was born on 21 December 1878 in
Lublin to Mieczysław and Maria Woroniecki (). As a youth, he was stated to have influenced the conversion of an English
Quaker. He graduated from a Russian
gymnasium in
Warsaw in 1898, attaining the rank of warrant officer. After serving one year in the Grodno
hussar regiment, he attended the
University of Fribourg, obtaining a
bachelor's degree in natural science in 1902. Under the spiritual guidance of
Honorat Koźmiński, he began studying theology, obtaining a bachelor's degree in theology from the University in 1905. That same year, he began attending the diocesan seminary in Lublin; ==Cause for beatification==