The Bishop of Kamianets-Podilskyi is the head of the diocese of Kamianets-Podilskyi. Its begins with its founding in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland around 1375 when Pope Urban VI, on the initiative of then king of Poland Louis I of Hungary, erected the diocese in Kamianets-Podilskyi. It was subordinated to the metropolis of Halych in the administrative region of Halych Land.
In 1795, Russian empress Catherine the Great abolished the Kamianets-Podilskyi Diocese, only to be restored a few years later in 1798 by Paul I of Russia, who placed the Kamianets-Podilskyi bishopric under the authority of the Archbishop of Mogilev as its metropolis. In 1866, the diocese was again abolished by the Tsarist autocracy. From the years 1867-1918 it was administered by the bishops of Lutsk-Zhytomyr.[1][2]
Bishops
List of diocesan bishops of Kamianets-Podilskyi[3]
| Term of office | Bishop | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1406–1411 | Aleksander | ||
| 1411–1413 | Andrzej of Klęka | ||
| 1414–C. 1423-28 | Zbigniew of Łapanów | ||
| 1428–1453 | Paweł of Bojańczyce | ||
| 1453–1467 | Mikołaj Łabuński | ||
| 1468 | Piotr Gołąbek | ||
| 1469–1479 | Mikołaj Próchnicki | ||
| 1484–1490 | Maciej ze Starej Łomży | Then becoming the Bishop of the Diocese of Chełm | |
| 1492–C. 1500 | Piotr z Lesiowa | ||
| 1510–1518 | Jakub Buczacki | later the Bishop of Chełm, and subsequently the Bishop of Płock | |
| 1521–1531 | Wawrzyniec Międzyleski | ||
| 1531–1535 | Piotr Gamrat | Subsequently, the Bishop of Przemyśl, later the Bishop of Płock, the Bishop of Kraków, the Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland | |
| 1535–1538 | Sebastian Branicki | Next, the Bishop of the Diocese of Chełm, later Bishop of the Diocese of Poznań | |
| 1539–1540 | Jan Wilamowski | ||
| 1542-1543 | Jan Dziaduski | Later the Bishop of Chełm, and subsequently the Bishop of Przemyśl | |
| 1543 | Mikołaj Dzierzgowski | Later Bishop of the Diocese of Chełm, subsequently Bishop of the Diocese of Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland | |
| 1543–1545 | Andrzej Zebrzydowski | Later Bishop of the Diocese of Chełm, subsequently Bishop of the Diocese of Kujawsko-Pomorskie, and Bishop of the Diocese of Kraków | |
| 1545–1546 | Jan Drohojowski | later Bishop of the Diocese of Chełm, and subsequently Bishop of the Diocese of Kujawsko-Pomorskie | |
| 1546 | Benedykt Izdbieński | and subsequently the Bishop of Poznań | |
| 1546–1562 | Leonard Słończewski | ||
| 1562 | Piotr Arciechowski | ||
| 1563–1576 | Dionizy Secygniowski | ||
| 1577–1586 | Marcin Białobrzeski | ||
| 1587–1590 | Wawrzyniec Goślicki | Later Bishop of the Diocese of Chełm, subsequently Bishop of the Diocese of Przemyśl, and Bishop of the Diocese of Poznań. | |
| 1590–1591 | Stanisław Gomoliński | Later the Bishop of Chełm, and subsequently the Bishop of Łuck. | |
| 1594–1607 | Paweł Wołucki | Later the Bishop of Łuck, and subsequently the Bishop of Kujawsko-Pomorskie. | |
| 1607–1614 | Jan Andrzej Próchnicki | then followed by Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv. | |
| 1615–1627 | Adam Nowodworski | then becoming the Bishop of Przemyśl, later the Bishop of Poznań. | |
| 1627–1641 | Paweł Piasecki | later becoming the Bishop of Chełm, and subsequently the Bishop of Przemyśl. | |
| 1641–1646 | Andrzej Leszczyński | later the Bishop of Chełmno and Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Pomerania, and subsequently the Metropolitan Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland | |
| 1646–c. 1657 | Michał Erazm Działyński | ||
| C. 1658–1660 | Jan Ludwik Stępkowski | ||
| 1664–1666 | Zygmunt Czyżowski | then the diocesan bishop of Lutsk | |
| 1667–1670 | Wojciech Koryciński | then the Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv | |
| 1670–1677 | Wespazjan Lanckoroński | ||
| 1680–1685 | Stanisław Wojeński | ||
| 1686–1689 | Jerzy Albrecht Denhoff | then the Bishop of Przemyśl, later the Bishop of Kraków | |
| 1700–1716 | Jan Chryzostom Gniński | ||
| 1716–1721 | Stefan Bogusław Rupniewski | then the diocesan bishop of Lutsk | |
| 1722–1733 | Stanisław Józef Hozjusz | then the Bishop of the Diocese of Poznań | |
| 1733–1735 | Adam Augustyn Wessel | ||
| 1736–1739 | Franciszek Antoni Kobielski | then the diocesan bishop of Lutsk | |
| 1739–1742 | Wacław Hieronim Sierakowski | then the Bishop of Przemyśl, later Archbishop of Lviv | |
| 1742–1757 | Mikołaj Dembowski | ||
| 1759–1795 | Adam Stanisław Krasiński | ||
| 1795–1809 | Jan Dembowski | ||
| 1815–1842 | Franciszek Mackiewicz | ||
| 1853–1855 | Mikołaj Górski | ||
| 1860–1872 | Antoni Fijałkowski | then the Metropolitan Archbishop of Mogilev | |
| Kasper Borowski | Apostolic Administrator from 1867 to 1883, and at the same time Diocesan Bishop of Lutsk and Zhytomyr, and subsequently Diocesan Bishop of Płock | ||
| Szymon Marcin Kozłowski | Apostolic Administrator from 1883 to 1891, concurrently serving as Bishop of the Diocese of Lutsk and Zhytomyr, subsequently Archbishop-Metropolitan of Mohyliv, and also Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Minsk | ||
| Cyryl Lubowidzki | Apostolic Administrator from 1897 to 1898, and at the same time Diocesan Bishop of Lutsk and Zhytomyr | ||
| Bolesław Hieronim Kłopotowski | Apostolic Administrator from 1899 to 1901, and at the same time Diocesan Bishop of Lutsk and Zhytomyr, subsequently Archbishop of the Metropolis of Mogilev | ||
| Karol Antoni Niedziałkowski | Apostolic Administrator from 1901 to 1911, and at the same time Diocesan Bishop of Lutsk and Zhytomyr | ||
| Ignacy Dubowski | Apostolic Administrator from 1916 to 1918, and at the same time Diocesan Bishop of Lutsk and Zhytomyr | ||
| 1918–1926 | Piotr Mańkowski | ||
| 1991–2002 | Jan Olszański | ||
| 2002–2025 | Leon Dubrawski | ||
| Since 2025 | Edward Kawa[4] | ||
Auxiliary bishops of Kamianets-Podilskyi
| Term of office | Bishop | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1641– c. 1658 | Jan Ludwik Stępkowski | coadjutor bishop, and subsequently diocesan bishop of Kamianets-Podilskyi | |
| 1723–1724 | Michał de la Mars[5] | ||
| 1730– before 1779 | Adam Wojna Orański[6] | ||
| 1778–? | Jan Ignacy Dłuski[7] | ||
| 1828–1841 | Ignacy Ludwik Pawłowski[8] | then the Metropolitan Archbishop of Mogilev | |
| 1858–1860 | Antoni Fijałkowski[9] | later the diocesan bishop of Kamieniec, and subsequently the Metropolitan Archbishop of Mogilev | |
| 1995–1998 | Stanisław Padewski[10] | later Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv, and subsequently Diocesan Bishop of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia | |
| 1998–2002 | Leon Dubrawski[3] | and then the Bishop of Kamianets | |
| 2006–2020 | Jan Niemiec[11] | ||
| Since 2013 | Radosław Zmitrowicz[12] | ||
References
- 1."Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi (Kamieniec)".
- 2."Dioecesis Camenecensis Latinorum".
- 3.[3.2]Prokop, Krzysztof (2007). Biskupi Kamienieccy od srednowicza do współecznosci (PDF). pp. 24–28. ISBN 978-83-88863-24-0.
- 4.""Nomina del Vescovo di Kamyanets-Podilskyi dei Latini (Ucraina)"".
- 5."Bishop Michał Delamars".
- 6."Bishop Adam Wojna Orański".
- 7."Organizacja i funkcjonowanie szkoły podwydziałowej w Kamieńcu Podolskim w czasach Komisji Edukacji Narodowej" (PDF).
- 8."Archbishop Ignacy Ludwik Pawłowski".
- 9."Archbishop Anton Fiałkowski".
- 10."Bishop Stanisław Padewski, O.F.M. Cap".
- 11."Bishop Jan Niemiec".
- 12."Bishop Radosław Zmitrowicz, O.M.I."