Paweł Dembski was a 16th-century Polish churchman.
Born into the
Prawdzic noble family clan about 1540AD, he was a
Catholic
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priest
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,
Canon
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, Auxiliary
Bishop
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and Vicar General of the
Diocese of Kraków
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associated ...
. He was also Bishop of
Laodicea in Phrygia
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.(modern
Turkey
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).
He died on 28 February 1614 in
Kraków
, officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...
.
[Piotr Biliński]
Żywoty Biskupów sufraganów krakowskich. Tygodnik Salwatorski nr 5/320 z 4 lutego 2001
References
16th-century births
1614 deaths
16th-century Polish nobility
16th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Canons of Kraków
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