Kazimierz Dmochowski (24 June 1779 – 11 January 1851) was a Roman Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Mohilev from 1848 until his death in 1851. He previously served as auxiliary bishop of the

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and titular bishop of Meloë from 1840 to 1848.

Biography

Dmochowski was born in Zabolotye in 1779. He attended a

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secondary school at Luzkhi from when was 10 until he obtained his ''

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'' on 1 November 1797, after which he began attending the diocesan seminary at

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; he transferred to the diocesan seminary at

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in 1798. He was ordained a priest on at Vilnius. After his ordination, he served as a chaplain to

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and Hieronim Stroynowski. He was appointed canon of Courland in 1807. Later, Dmochowski was appointed coadjutor cantor of the cathedral chapter of Vilnius on 26 February 1811; he was appointed canon regular on 10 December 1812. He was appointed assessor of the consistory of the Diocese of Vilnius in 1813. In 1814, Dmochowski was appointed deputy of the ecclesiastical court at Vilnius and member of its cathedral council. He was awarded a doctorate in theology from the on 29 July 1818. Dmochowski later served at the from 1821 to 1823, when he was appointed dean of the cathedral chapter at Vilnius. He was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Vilnius by

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on 31 March 1838; his appointment was confirmed by

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on 17 December 1840, and he was consecrated as auxiliary bishop of Vilnius and titular bishop of Meloë on 29 June 1841 at the Church of St. Catherine in Saint Petersburg by Ignacy Ludwik Pawłowski. He was appointed head of the Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical College in 1842. On 3 July 1848, Dmochowski was appointed by

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as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Mohilev. He received his

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at the Church of St. Catherine on 28 November 1848, and ceremonially assumed control of the Archdiocese at Mohilev Cathedral on 17 July 1849. As archbishop of Mohilev, Dmochowski opposed the closure of Catholic monasteries and

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parishes in the Russian Empire. He also helped to construct a cemetery in

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. Dmochowski died in 1851 in

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and was buried in the Lutheran cemetery in Vyborgsky; his remains were moved to a Catholic cemetery in the same district in 1901.

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