In ordine O. Jerome – provincial.
He was probably born in Warwaryńce (Ternopil County) as the son of Andrzej, the owner of this estate, and Elżbieta from the Wydżga family. He was the younger brother of Stanisław O.P. in ordine O. Ambrose, vicar of the Ruthenian province (1632), and the cousin of Mateusz O.P. in ordine O. Valerian, provincial of the Polish Province (1626-31), as well as the cousin of Jan Stefan Wydżga, Chancellor of the Crown, Archbishop of Gniezno, Primate of Poland. As a student of the Lviv monastery of the Corpus Christi, he seems to have gone abroad for further studies to Bologna after his priestly ordination, where in 1635 he obtained a lecturership in theology and art. He nostrified it upon his return to Poland at the General Studium in Lviv, taking a repeat exam (1643) and in that institution became a bachelor (1645) and a doctor (1648). Stefan Kneler, prefect of the apostolic missions in the country, appointed him in 1640 as a missionary in Konstantynów. Elected in 1644 as provincial of the Ruthenian province, he immediately encountered difficulties related to the newly established Lithuanian congregation that year, which attempted to appropriate some Ruthenian monasteries.
He entrusted the defense of his province’s borders in Rome and with King Władysław IV to the influential Fr. Jan Dominik Rozniatowski, but the dispute dragged on until 1647, as in Warsaw the Ruthenian case was paralyzed by Fr. Marcelin Doroszewski, preacher of Władysław IV and member of the Lithuanian congregation. Meanwhile, Grocholski focused on organizing the general studium in Lviv, for which he had brought privileges from Bologna as early as 1636, and now (1645) he initiated a lawsuit with the Belzecki family over the foundation of Jakub Brachowski for 2 bursars of the Ruthenian Province in the Roman monastery of Sopra Minerva. In 1647, he traveled to the general chapter in Valencia, where he obtained permission to transfer (again, as it was first transferred there in 1622) the general studium from the Corpus Christi monastery to the monastery of St. Mary Magdalene extra muros in Lviv, and approval for newly established foundations: in Przyluka, funded by Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, in Byszów, funded by Anna Nitosławska, and in Lipowiec, funded by Adam of Grodzimierz Wirga, with the support of Dominik, Prince of Ostrog and Zasław.
Grocholski sought to populate the undeveloped areas of the Konstantynów, Smolińsko (Puciatyn), and Ozernichask monasteries, where his right-hand man in this regard was Fr. Wacław Grotowski, who was colonizing the monastery town of Mryn. Grocholski’s colonization involved attracting settlers, providing them with comfortable living conditions, and partially freeing them from serfdom. At the end of his administration, the tragedy of the Ruthenian Province began. The Cossacks of Chmielnicki destroyed the monastery in Kudak in July or August 1648, devastated Tulczyn and Konstantynów, where the electoral chapter for the new provincial was to be held; it was therefore held on September 8 of that year in Lviv, where his friend Szymon Okolski was elected as Grocholski’s successor. The latter dedicated his work “Russia florida” to Grocholski. In 1649, Grocholski was elected prior in Kolomyja and died there in May 1652.