Kazimierz Łubieński (d. 1719) was a Polish

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who was

Bishop of Kraków A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of dioceses. The role ...

(1710–1719). Kazimierz Łubieński was born into a noble family that claimed the Pomian crest. As Bishop of

Chełm Chełm (; ; ) is a city in eastern Poland in the Lublin Voivodeship with 60,231 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is located to the south-east of Lublin, north of Zamość and south of Biała Podlaska, some from the border with Ukraine. The ...

, he donated 2,444 złoty to fund the academic Church of St. Anne. In 1714, as Bishop of Kraków, he founded a Vincentian seminary in

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. Łubieński died in 1719 and is buried in

Wawel Cathedral The Wawel Cathedral (), formally titled the Archcathedral Basilica of Stanislaus of Szczepanów, Saint Stanislaus and St. Wenceslas, Saint Wenceslaus, () is a Catholic cathedral situated on Wawel Hill in Kraków, Poland. Nearly 1000 years old, it ...

. A monument and bust dedicated to him is located at the altar of St. Stanislaus.Czyżewski, Krzysztof J., and Marek Walczak. "The Monuments with Portrait Busts of the Bishops of Cracow: On the History of the Reception of Roman Baroque Models of Sepulchral Art in Poland (Bernini – Algardi – Rossi)." ''Artibus et Historiae'', vol. 36, no. 71, 2015, pp. 181–223.

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