Peter Tilicki

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Petrus Tylicki, Bishop of Kulm, Warmia, Kuyavian-Pomerania, Krakow

Peter Tilicki (also Petrus Tilicki or Piotr Tylicki ) (* 1543 in Kowal near Włocławek ; † July 13, 1616 in Kraków ) was a Catholic priest, Bishop of Kulm based in Culmsee , then Prince-Bishop in the Diocese of Warmia based in Heilsberg (today Lidzbark Warmiński ), in the Diocese of Kujawy-Pomerania , based in Leslau, and in the Diocese of Krakow .

Life

Tilicki comes from an impoverished noble family, his father Andreas was the mayor of the town of Kowale. He studied law at the Cracow Academy . In the reign of Stephan Báthorys he became royal secretary, also his successor Sigismund III. Wasa he served as a royal advisor. At the age of 45 he was ordained a deacon. He held numerous benefices : canons in Przemyśl , Warsaw , Sandomierz , Cracow, Plock and Posen, and later provost in Gniezno .

After the death of Bishop Piotr Kostka von Kulm, he was appointed as his successor by Pope Clement VIII on July 17, 1595 and consecrated bishop in Krakow in October of the same year. As bishop he brought the Jesuits to Thorn in Prussia. He campaigned for the building of schools and Protestant churches. He supported the introduction of German law (1598). In 1599 he gave the cathedral chapter new statutes. On June 5th, 1600 he was elected bishop by the cathedral chapter of the Diocese of Warmia and, after the Pope had approved the change, took over his new district on October 7th, 1600. He carried out a general visit to his diocese and in 1602 brought about the papal confirmation of the new rule of the Sisters of St. Catherine .

In November 1603 he was appointed bishop of Włocławek. As early as January 1607 the Krakow diocese was transferred to him. He stayed there until the end of his life. He observed discipline among the clergy. He set up a fund to support Warmian students at the Kraków Academy. In 1615 he and his brother Jakob founded the Tilicki Chapel in the Dominican Church of St. Nicholas in Thorn.

literature

  • Christian Feldmann: New spirit seeks new forms, Regina Protmann - founder of the Katharinenschwestern , Freiburg 1999
  • Ernst Manfred Wermter (ed.), Sources on the history of the first Catherine Sisters and their founder Regina Protmann , Bonn 1975
  • Hans Hümmeler: Regina Prothmann and the sisters of St. Katharina, An Unknown Chapter from the History of the German East , Siegburg 1955

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Ehrenberg: Italian Contributions to the History of the Province of East Prussia , Königsberg 1895, p. 63, source no. 92, letter of March 12, 1602.

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predecessor Office successor
Piotr Kostka Bishop of Kulm
1595–1600 		Wawrzyniec Gembicki
Andreas Báthory Bishop of Warmia
1600–1604 		Simon Rudnicki
Jan Tarnowski Bishop of Kuyavian
1603–1607 		Wojciech Baranowski
Bernard Maciejowski Bishop of Cracow
1607–1616 		Marcin Szyszkowski
personal data
SURNAME Tilicki, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tilicki, Petrus; Tylicki, Piotr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION catholic bishop
DATE OF BIRTH 1543
PLACE OF BIRTH Kowal near Włocławek
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1616
Place of death Krakow