Ignacy Stanisław Czyżewski (5 December 1753 – 11 December 1823) was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sejny.
Biography
Czyżewski was born in Kalisz.
On 26 August 1767, he was ordained a
Jesuit
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priest; he later attended
Jagellonian University
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, where he received doctorates in law & canon law. He was later made regent of the chancellory of the
diocese of Kujawy, by orders of its bishop, Józef Ignacy Rybiński. On 26 April 1787, he was made a
canon
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of the cathedral of Włocławek.
In 1820, Czyżewski was appointed
coadjutor bishop
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The coa ...
of the Diocese of Sejny by
Jan Klemens Gołaszewski.
After Gołaszewski's death, Czyżewski was appointed bishop of Sejny on 19 May 1820; he was consecrated on 6 August of the same year by Adam Michał Prażmowski, the bishop of Płock, assisted by Feliks Łukasz Lewiński and Józef Marcelin Dzięcielski. He died on 11 December 1823 in Warsaw.
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Polish Roman Catholic bishops
People from Sejny County
1753 births
1823 deaths
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