Stanisław Słomowski (died 22 September 1575 in
Lwów
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) was a Polish
Bishop
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and Cardinal of Roman Catholic Church.
Born into the
Abdank noble family
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he was a
Cardinal
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***Northern cardinal, ''Cardinalis cardinalis'', the common cardinal of ...
of the Roman Catholic Church,
doctor of Law
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s,
Canon
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of
Poznań
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and
Gniezno
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, Auxiliary
Bishop
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of
Krakow and
Archbishop of Lviv.
He was the son of a very wealthy
nobleman
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, Wincenty Słomowski and relative of Bishop
Piotr Tomicki
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. He studied at the
Academy of Cracow, and in Italy. From 1529
Canon
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of
Gniezno
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and
Poznań
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, and
Kielce
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. In 1554 was appointed vicar general and ''oficjałem'' of Kraków and then on 14 February 1560 was appointed Auxiliary
Bishop of Kraków
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and
titular bishop
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of
Laodicea in Phrygia
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.
In 1565 King
Sigismund Augustus
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and
Pope
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Pius IV
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, made him
Archbishop of Lwów. He died on 22 September 1575 in
Lwów
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.
[I. Kaniewska, Stanisław Słomowski, In: Polski Słownik Biograficzny, Vol. XXXIX, 1999-2000.]
References
16th-century births
1560 deaths
16th-century Polish nobility
16th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Canons of Kraków
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