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Andrzej Stanisław Załuski

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Andrzej Stanisław Załuski
Bishop of Kraków
Church Catholic Church
Diocese Diocese of Kraków
In office 2 May 1746 – 16 December 1758
Predecessor Jan Aleksander Lipski
Successor Kajetan Sołtyk
Previous posts Bishop of Chelmno (1739-1746)
Bishop of Lutsk (1736-1739)
Bishop of Płock (1723-1736)
Orders
Consecration 13 February 1724
by Konstanty Felicjan Szaniawski[1]
Personal details
Born Andrzej Stanisław Kostka Załuski
2 December 1695
Jedlińsk, Sandomierz Voivodeship, Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Died 16 December 1758 (aged 63)

Andrzej Stanisław Kostka Załuski (2 December 1695 – 16 December 1758) was a priest (bishop) in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

In his religious career, he held the posts of abbot and later Bishop of Płock (from 1723, simultaneously serving as Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Pomesania), Bishop of Łuck (1736), Bishop of Chełmno (1739), and Bishop of Cracow (1746). He was a supporter of the Jesuits in Poland.

A member of the Polish nobility (szlachta) of the Junosza coat of arms, he also held the position of the Great Crown Chancellor from 1735 to 1746. As a politician, he was engaged in the movement that wanted to reform the failing political system of the Commonwealth.

He studied in Danzig and Rome.

Załuski was a corresponding member of Societas eruditorum incognitorum in terris Austriacis, the first learned society in Habsburg Austria.

Along with his brother Józef Andrzej Załuski, the bishop of Kyiv, he co-founded the Załuski Library, one of the largest 18th-century book collections in the world.[2] He also sponsored the seminary in Pułtusk.

See also

  • History of philosophy in Poland

References

  1. Back to citation "Bishop Andrzej Stanisław Załuski". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2026-06-03.
  2. Back to citation (in English) Maria Witt (September 15 – October 15, 2005). "The Zaluski Collection in Warsaw". The Strange Life of One of the Greatest European Libraries of the Eighteenth Century. FYI France. Archived from the original on 8 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-17.

Bibliography

  • Piotr Nitecki, Biskupi Kościoła w Polsce w latach 965–1999 (Church Bishops in Poland from 965 to 1999), Instytut Wydawniczy Pax, Warszawa 2000