Paweł Piasecki (1579–1649) was the Royal Secretary of king
Sigismund III Vasa
Sigismund III Vasa (, ; 20 June 1566 – 30 April 1632
N.S.) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and, as Sigismund, King of Sweden from 1592 to 1599. He was the first Polish sovereign from the House of Vasa. Re ...
(1613–1627);
Catholic priest
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, canon, abbot,
bishop of Kamieniec (1627–1640),
bishop of Chełm (1640–1644),
bishop of Przemyśl
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(1640–1649).
He was the author of a
chronicle
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in
Latin
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later translated into Polish as ''Kronika Pawła Piaseckiego biskupa przemyślskiego. Polski przekład wedle dawnego rękopismu, poprzedzony studyjum krytyczném nad życiem i pismami autora 1870'
1579 births
1649 deaths
Bishops of Przemyśl
Abbots of Mogiła
Ecclesiastical senators of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
17th-century Polish historians
17th-century Polish male writers
Polish male non-fiction writers
17th-century Polish Roman Catholic priests
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