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Biography

Stefan Antoni Mdzewski was born in Plock in 1653 and ordained a priest in the

Order of Preachers The Order of Preachers ( la, Ordo Praedicatorum) abbreviated OP, also known as the Dominicans, is a Catholic mendicant order of Pontifical Right for men founded in Toulouse, France, by the Spanish priest, saint and mystic Dominic of Cal ...

on 2 May 1671. On 11 Jan 1690, he was appointed during the papacy of

Pope Alexander VIII Pope Alexander VIII ( it, Alessandro VIII; 22 April 1610 – 1 February 1691), born Pietro Vito Ottoboni, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 October 1689 to his death in February 1691. He is to date the las ...

as Auxiliary Bishop of Lutsk and

Titular Bishop A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese. By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox ...

of ''Calama.'' On 12 Mar 1690, he was consecrated bishop by Bogusław Leszczyński (bishop),

Bishop of Lutsk The Roman Catholic diocese of Lutsk was first established in the 13th century as the diocese of Luceoria (Latin) or Łuck (Polish). After the victory of Napoleon, the diocese was joined with the diocese of Zhytomyr, forming the diocese of Lutzk-Zh ...

, with

Andrzej Chryzostom Załuski Andrzej Załuski Chrysostom (1650 – 12 May 1711) was a seventeenth-century Polish preacher, translator, prolific writer, Chancellor of the Crown and bishop. Early life He was born in 1650 in Kiev, into the Junosza noble family, the son of A ...

, Bishop of Kyiv and Chernihiv, serving as co-consecrator. On 13 Aug 1699, he was appointed during the papacy of

Pope Innocent XII Pope Innocent XII ( la, Innocentius XII; it, Innocenzo XII; 13 March 1615 – 27 September 1700), born Antonio Pignatelli, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 July 1691 to his death in September 1700. He ...

as Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno. He served as Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno until his death on 16 May 1718.

Episcopal succession

While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of: * Kazimierz Jan Szczuka, Bishop of Chelmno (1693); *

Kazimierz Łubieński Kazimierz (; la, Casimiria; yi, קוזמיר, Kuzimyr) is a historical district of Kraków and Kraków Old Town, Poland. From its inception in the 14th century to the early 19th century, Kazimierz was an independent city, a royal city of the C ...

, Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków (1701); * Aleksander Benedykt Wyhowski,

(1703); and * Jan Mikolaj Łubieniecki, Bishop of Bacău (1711).

References

External links and additional sources

* (for Chronology of Bishops) * (for Chronology of Bishops) {{DEFAULTSORT:Mdzewski, Stefan Antonin 17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 18th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Bishops appointed by Pope Alexander VIII Bishops appointed by Pope Innocent XII 1653 births 1718 deaths Dominican bishops