Jan Benisławski (1735–1812) was a Polish clergyman who was the

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of Mohilev and the

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Biography

Benisławski was born in 1735 in

Inflanty Voivodeship The Inflanty Voivodeship (), or Livonian Voivodeship (), also known as Polish Livonia, was an administrative division and local government in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, since it was formed in the 1620s out of the Wenden Voivodeship and ...

and entered the

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. In 1773, the Jesuits were suppressed by the

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titled ''

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'', and Benisławski then went to work for the

National Education Commission The Commission of National Education (, KEN, ) was the central educational authority in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, created by the Sejm and King Stanisław August Poniatowski, Stanisław II August on October 14, 1773. Because of its ...

which was created in that same year. In 1782,

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made Benisławski the coadjutor bishop of Mohilev, and Benisławski received the pope's recognition of the Mohilev diocese in 1783. According to historian Gustaw Manteuffel, Benisławski also authored works on

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. Benisławski died in 1812. According to

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, Benisławski was a recipient of the Order of the White Eagle and

Order of Saint Stanislaus The Order of Saint Stanislaus (, ), also spelled Stanislas, was a Polish order of knighthood founded in 1765 by King Stanisław August Poniatowski of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It remained under the Congress Poland, Kingdom of Pola ...

Works

* (1774) ''Institutiones logicae'' * (1799) ''Rozmyślania dla księży świeckich o powinnościach chrześciańskich z listów i Ewangelii wzięte''

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