He was a Catholic priest, born in Jabłonków (Jablunkov) in 1787; he was ordained in 1811 and worked as a vicar in Cieszyn for several years. Paduch was rector in Goleszów during the years 1818-40, where he carried out extensions and improvements on the local parish church. He was later rector and dean in Cieszyn, where he was a member and chaplain of the Cieszyn Shooting Club. His greatest achievements were working with the problem of alcoholism in Cieszyn Silesia and the introduction of the Polish language into churches in 1848. He was the rector in Strumień from 1855, where he died in 1861.
       Paduch was awarded with honorary citizenship of Cieszyn at a meeting of the Town Council on 26 March 1856, at the time of his move to Strumień from Cieszyn. The reasons for the honour were; his long-term work for the town, and later as rector and dean of Cieszyn, as a school inspector and diocesan supervisor, and also as a councillor in the Cieszyn Commune, a member of the Town Council and the Cieszyn Committee for Work with the Needy.