Bossuta Stefan (died 7 March 1028) or Bożętą was an
Archbishop of Gniezno
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name Bozet or Borzęta, and it is presumed that he adopted a
Christian
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second name. This would indicate he was an ethnic
Slav
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.
According to the ''Annales regni Polonorum deperditi'', the yearbook of
Kraków Cathedral
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(Rocznik kapitulny krakowski), he succeeded
Hipolit in 1027 and remained in office until his death on 7 March 1028, and the bishopric may have then remained vacant until 1076.
However, according to the fifteenth-century historian
Jan Długosz
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, Bossuta and Stefan were two separate
bishop
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s. Dlugosz records that Stefan, was the successor to Bożętą and had sent a delegation to
Rome
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to complain about
the attack and robbery in 1038 of
Gniezno Cathedral
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, by the
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duke
Břetislav I
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Youth
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who took the
relic
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s of brothers
Saint Adalbert and Bishop
Radim Gaudentius
Radim Gaudentius (, ; c. 970 – c. 1020) was Archbishop of Gniezno and the first Polish archbishop.
Background
Radim was an illegitimate son of Bohemian nobleman Slavník, and thus the half-brother of Adalbert of Prague.
In 989, the two jour ...
.
[History of the Archdiocese of Gniezno]
Bossuta
Still today, despite the rather widespread agreement to identify Bossuty with Stefan, 1038 appears sometimes as the date of his death.
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Archbishops of Gniezno
11th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Poland
1028 deaths
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