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Andrzej Wiszowaty Jr. (c.1690 – 1735) was a grandson of
Andrzej Wiszowaty Sr. Andrzej Wiszowaty Sr. (Latin ''Andreas Wissowatius'') ( Filipów 1608 - Amsterdam, 1678) was a Socinian theologian who worked with Joachim Stegmann (1595–1633) on the Racovian Catechism of 1605, and taught at the Racovian Academy of the Polish ...
He taught at the Unitarian Gymnasium in Kolozsvár (today
Cluj ; hu, kincses város) , official_name=Cluj-Napoca , native_name= , image_skyline= , subdivision_type1 = County , subdivision_name1 = Cluj County , subdivision_type2 = Status , subdivision_name2 = County seat , settlement_type = City , le ...
) from 1726 or before. It appears that Andrzej Jr. was born while his father
Benedykt Wiszowaty Benedykt Wiszowaty (c.1650 – after 1704 Kosinowo) was a Polish Socinian, nobleman, author and publisher. After the Sejm expelled the Socinians from Poland, he left the country with his father. From 1666, they lived in Amsterdam, where he condu ...
was a Unitarian minister in Kosinowo, in the
Duchy of Prussia The Duchy of Prussia (german: Herzogtum Preußen, pl, Księstwo Pruskie, lt, Prūsijos kunigaikštystė) or Ducal Prussia (german: Herzogliches Preußen, link=no; pl, Prusy Książęce, link=no) was a duchy in the region of Prussia establish ...
. From 1712 to 1722 he studied in the Netherlands. In September 1722 he presided for the first time over Communion of the Polish Unitarian congregation in Kolozsvár, of which he was pastor. His later years in Transylvania coincide with the revival in the fortunes of the Unitarian church there led by bishop
Mihály Lombard de Szentábrahám Mihály Lombard de Szentábrahám ( Városfalva, 1683 – Kolozsvár, March 30, 1758) was a Hungarian Unitarian bishop.Earl Morse Wilbur ''A history of Unitarianism'' Vol.2 "Michael Lombard Szentabrahami was born in a Szekler village in 1683. ...
. He died after he presided over church discipline on September 18, 1735 and before December 1735 when the Polish Unitarian congregation did not sit for its discipline.H. Barycz, Obraz z życia zboru unitariańskiego w Koloszwarze, "Reformacja w Polsce" vol. 11 (1948/1952), p. 82


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Polish Unitarians Unitarian Church of Transylvania 1690s births 1740s deaths {{Unitarianism-stub