Jan Adrian Lata (born 7 March 1944 in Tarnów, Poland) was ordained in 1969.
He is a Polish Catholic priest, theologian, and philosopher.
Lata wrote his thesis about Paul Tillich.
With his thesis and with numerous translations of books of Paul Tillich he helped to spread the ideas of protestantic Paul Tillich, Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Rudolf Bultmann in catholic Poland.
From 1991 to 2017 Lata worked in the little village Weiding, Germany, as a priest and wrote books about the situation of modern Christians.
In 1994, Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop Józef Zycinski of the Archdiocese of Lublin awarded him the title canon.
In 2017, Lata retired and returned to his native Poland.