Maciej Łubieński
Maciej Łubieński Herb Pomian (born February 2, 1572 in Łubna-Jakusy , † August 28, 1652 in Łowicz ) was Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland-Lithuania , Bishop of Posen , Włocławek and Chełm and the brother of Stanisław Łubieński .
Life
Maciej Łubieński first studied in Sieradz , then at the Jesuit College of Kalisz , and later in Poznań and Kraków . After graduating from the Cracow Academy, he worked in the Royal Chancellery. A little later he studied canon law in Italy and in the Holy Empire of the German Nation .
In 1602 he was ordained a priest . From 1607 he was secretary and notary of Sigismunds III's office. 1615 made him a nomination for the preposition of the monastery of the Holy Sepulcher in Michowo , where he became provost . In 1620 he became Bishop of Chełm, he was ordained episcopate on October 31, 1621 by the Bishop of Cracow , Marcin Szyszkowski ; Co- consecrators were Jan Wężyk , Bishop of Przemyśl , and Tomasz Oborski , Auxiliary Bishop in Kraków. In 1626 he became Bishop of Poznań, in 1631 Bishop of Włocławek and in 1641 Bishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland.
During the Khmelnytskyi uprising in 1648, he led the Polish state as Interrex and signed the election of Jan II Kazimierz Waza as king. On January 17, 1649 he crowned him king in Wawel Cathedral .
As a primate of Poland he took care of numerous sacred buildings and donated z. B. the chapel of Matka Boska Częstochowska . He also initiated measures for ecumenism . He commissioned the Baroque transformation of the Arch-Cathedral in Gniezno . Maciej Łubieński also made a name for himself in normalizing relations between the Church and the economy in his dioceses.
Maciej Łubieński published his writing Constitutiones Capitulorum generalium Miechoviensium ordinis canonicorum Regularium in 1627 .
He died in Łowicz in 1652 and was buried in a separate chapel of the Arch-Cathedral in Gniezno.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Łubieński, Mathias . No. 5. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 16th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1867, p. 105 ( digitized version ).
- Urban W .: Łubieński Maciej h. Pomian (1572-1652). In: Wielkopolski słownik biograficzny. 1983, p. 437.
Web links
- Entry on Maciej Łubieński on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on November 6, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ^ Andrzej Drewicz: Przewodnik po regionie . Colegium jezuickie, www.wkaliszu.pl
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Łubieński, Maciej |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | archbishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1572 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Łubna-Jakusy |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1652 |
| Place of death | Łowicz |