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Teofil Cyprian Wolicki

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His Excellency

Teofil Wolicki
Archdiocese of Gniezno
Leon Przyłuski
ChurchRoman Catholic
ArchdioceseGniezno
Installed1828
Term ended1829
Orders
Ordination1792
Consecration15 May 1829
Personal details
Born20 September 1768
Died21 December 1829
Poznań
NationalityPolish
Coat of armsEpiscopal coat of arms of Archbishop Teofil Wolicki,


Teofil Cyprian Wolicki (1768–1829) was an 18th-century Primate of Poland and Bishop of Poznań and Włocławek.

Life

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He was born 30 October 1768 in Doruchów.[1]

He graduated from seminary in Warsaw, and ordained a priest. Then he studied law and theology at the academy of Vilnius and in Rome.[2]

After his return to Poland, he worked in the Office of the Crown Chancellery and a library of Stanisław August Poniatowski, under the direction of Bishop John Baptist Albertrandi.

He became Archbishop of Gniezno on 17 May 1829.[3]

He died December 21, 1829, in Poznań.

References

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  1. ^ A. Biernat, I. Ihnatowicz, Vademecum do badań nad historią XIX i XX wieku, (Warszawa 2003), p462–470.
  2. ^ Dziennik Konfederacyi Jeneralnej Królestwa Polskiego, (1812), p4.
  3. ^ Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi, Volume 7, Page 204.
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