Krzysztof Antoni Szembek was born on 25 March 1667 in the village of Szczepanowo and died on 6 July 1748 in Łowicz. He was the Bishop of Livonia from 1711, the Bishop of Poznań from 1717 to 1719, the Kujawy Bishop from 1719 to 1739,[1] the Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland from 1739, a clerical referendary in 1709, a Pomeranian archdeacon, the canon of Włocławek and the canon of Przemyśl in 1699.[2]