Archbishop Seweryn Tytus Morawski (; ; 2 January 1819 – 2 May 1900) was a Roman Catholic prelate, who served as an Auxiliary Bishop of the

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and a Titular Bishop of Trapezopolis from 13 May 1881 until 27 March 1885 and as the Metropolitan Archbishop of the same Archdiocese from 27 March 1885 until his death on 2 May 1900.

Life

Archbishop Morawski was born in the

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Polish Roman Catholic family in the present day

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. After graduation of the gymnasium education, he subsequently joined Faculty of Philology of the

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(1834–1836), but left his studies, because of his father's death and his own illness. In 1837–1841 he graduated Faculty of Low at the same university and in 1841–1849 worked as a public servant in the

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government. After that, Morawski joined Faculty of Theology of the

and the Major Roman Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv in 1849, was ordained as

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on August 31, 1851, for the

, and completed his philosophical and theological studies in 1852. After his ordination, he served as an assistant priest in the Holy Cross parish in Horodok (1852–1853) and in

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(1853–1855). Later he was appointed as a chancellor of the Metropolitan curia (1855–1881) and a dean of the Cathedral (1867–1875). On May 13, 1881, he was appointed by the Pope

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as an Auxiliary Bishop of the

and a Titular Bishop of Trapezopolis. On June 26, 1881, he was consecrated as bishop by Metropolitan Archbishop Franciszek Ksawery Wierzchleyski and other prelates of the

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and the

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in the

. In the same time he was nominated as a Vicar General of the Archdiocese. On April 18, 1884, with the death of Metropolitan Franciszek Ksawery Wierzchleyski, he became a

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of the Archdiocese and on March 27, 1885, was confirmed by the Holy See as a Metropolitan Archbishop. Archbishop Morawski died, while in the office, on May 2, 1900, and was buried in the crypt of the seminarian chapel.

References

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