"Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Andrew, Frombork The Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Andrew () in Frombork, Poland, is a Roman Catholic church located at the Cathedral Hill, by the Cathedral St. (ul. Katedralna 8) It was originally constructed from 1329 to 1388. The basilica is one of Poland's official national Historic Monuments (""Pomnik historii""), as designated September 16, 1994 and tracked by the National Heritage Board of Poland. The astronomer and mathematician Nicolaus Copernicus worked here as a canon (1512–16 and 1522–43). He wrote his"
"Ecclesiae Gnesnensis Provincialium"" (1630). He served as Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland until his death on 27 May 1638. While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of: and the principal co-consecrator of: Jan Wężyk Jan Wężyk (1575–1638), of Wąż Coat of Arms, was a Polish noble and Roman Catholic bishop and Primate of Poland. Jan Wężyk was born in Wola Wężykowa, Poland in 1575. In 1619, he was selected by the King of Poland as Bishop of Przemyśl and confirmed by Pope Paul V on 17 Feb 1620. Later in 1620, he was consecrated bishop by Wawrzyniec Gembicki,"
"Christi) at the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Gniezno. He died on 14 April 1464. Jan Sprowski Jan ze Sprowy (?-1464) Jan Sprowski or as John of Odrowąż (John Odrowąż from Sprowa) was a 15th-century Roman Catholic Archbishop of Gniezno, and Primate of Poland and Lithuania. He was a Canon of Kraków, Gniezno, and Poznań and a member of the Royal Secretary from 1450 until 1453. He was appointed Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland from 1453–1464 where he was a protégé and supporter of King Casimir IV Jagiellon. As Primate he called 3"
"Cathedral. Hippolytus (archbishop of Gniezno) Hippolytus or Hipolit (died c. 1027) was an early medieval archbishop of Gniezno. His place and date of birth date are unknown but the medieval historian Jan Długosz claims that he was of noble birth and a Roman citizen. Modern scholars generally agree that he was not Polish. He was appointed Bishop between 18 April 1025 and 25 December 1025 in Gniezno Cathedral by Boleslaw I the Brave and was primate of Poland through the last part of Boleslaw's reign and the beginning of Mieszko II Lambert's. He died in 1027 and is buried in"
"Jan Wężyk Jan Wężyk (1575–1638), of Wąż Coat of Arms, was a Polish noble and Roman Catholic bishop and Primate of Poland. Jan Wężyk was born in Wola Wężykowa, Poland in 1575. In 1619, he was selected by the King of Poland as Bishop of Przemyśl and confirmed by Pope Paul V on 17 Feb 1620. Later in 1620, he was consecrated bishop by Wawrzyniec Gembicki, Archbishop of Gniezno. On 13 May 1624, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Poznań and installed on 1 Jul 1624. In 1626, he was selected by the"
"of St. Mary in Trastevere. On 25 March 1992, with the restructuring of the Church dioceses in Poland, John Paul II dissolved the union ""ad personam"" of Gniezno-Warsaw, naming as Metropolitan Archbishop of Gniezno Bishop Henryk Muszynski. The Pope decided that the title of Primate of Poland should remain linked to the historical heritage of S. Adalberto in the Archdiocese of Gniezno and confirmed that Cardinal Józef Glemp, Archbishop of Warsaw, who had custody of the relics of S. Adalberto, which were venerated in the Cathedral of Gniezno, should continue to bear the title of Primate of Poland. Pope Benedict"
"Hippolytus (archbishop of Gniezno) Hippolytus or Hipolit (died c. 1027) was an early medieval archbishop of Gniezno. His place and date of birth date are unknown but the medieval historian Jan Długosz claims that he was of noble birth and a Roman citizen. Modern scholars generally agree that he was not Polish. He was appointed Bishop between 18 April 1025 and 25 December 1025 in Gniezno Cathedral by Boleslaw I the Brave and was primate of Poland through the last part of Boleslaw's reign and the beginning of Mieszko II Lambert's. He died in 1027 and is buried in Gniezno"
"the lower jaw. The DNA from the bones found in the grave matched hair samples taken from a book owned by Copernicus which was kept at the library of the University of Uppsala in Sweden. On 22 May 2010 Copernicus was given a second funeral in a Mass led by Józef Kowalczyk, the former papal nuncio to Poland and newly named Primate of Poland. Copernicus's remains were reburied in the same spot in Frombork Cathedral where part of his skull and other bones had been found. A black granite tombstone now identifies him as the founder of the heliocentric theory"
"then died peacefully. Copernicus was reportedly buried in Frombork Cathedral, where a 1580 epitaph stood until being defaced; it was replaced in 1735. For over two centuries, archaeologists searched the cathedral in vain for Copernicus' remains. Efforts to locate them in 1802, 1909, 1939 had come to nought. In 2004 a team led by Jerzy Gąssowski, head of an archaeology and anthropology institute in Pułtusk, began a new search, guided by the research of historian Jerzy Sikorski. In August 2005, after scanning beneath the cathedral floor, they discovered what they believed to be Copernicus's remains. The discovery was announced only"
"of Poland. The tradition of burying notable Polish national in the cathedral has continued into the 21st century: in 1927, the ashes of the romantic poet Juliusz Słowacki were brought to the cathedral, ten years later the statesman and former Leader of Second Polish Republic, Marshal Józef Piłsudski, was interred in a vault beneath the Silver Tower and in 1993 the remains of the World War II military leader Władysław Sikorski were finally returned to Poland for burial in the crypt. More recently, the bodies of President Lech Kaczyński and his wife were entombed in a sarcophagus, in the antechamber"
"of Pope Paul V as Archbishop of Gniezno. He served as Archbishop of Gniezno until his death on 10 February 1624. While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of Jan Wężyk, Bishop of Przemyśl (1620). Wawrzyniec Gembicki Wawrzyniec Gembicki (5 August 1559 – 10 February 1624) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Gniezno (1616–1624), Bishop of Włocławek (1610–1616), and Bishop of Chelmno (1600–1610). Wawrzyniec Gembicki was born in Gembitz, Poland on 5 August 1559. On 10 November 1600, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement VIII as Bishop of Chelmno. On 1 April 1601,"
"Bishop of Poznań with the support of Queen Bona and in 1536 was elected Bishop of Kraków. In 1537 he was made Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland. Although a favorite of the King, he was known to be fond of the drink. He died in 1540 and was buried in the Cathedral of Gniezno. Jan Latalski (bishop of Gniezno) Jan Latalski (1463–1540) was a medieval Bishop of Kraków, Poznań, Archbishop of Gniezno, and Primate of Poland. Born in 1463 into the Prawdzic Polish noble family, he studied at the Cracow Academy. He was a pastor of Saint Peter"
"the Catholic Churches. In addition to his activity in the dioceses, he led a secular lifestyle and participated in the political life of the state. Piotr Gamrat Piotr Gamrat of Sulima arms (1487 – 27 August 1545) was Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland. Gamrat was born in Samoklęski near Jasło, Poland. Early in his career, Gamrat was the royal secretary to Sigismund I the Old. Gamrat was bishop of Kamieniec since 1531, of Przemyśl since 1535, of Kraków since 1538 and simultaneously Archbishop of Gniezno since 1541. From 1540 until 1545 Marcin Kromer was Gamrat's secretary. Gamrat actively"
"moved to a new location before the high altar on the following 16 August. Kadłubek's remains were again exhumed and reinterred in mid-1765 and some were moved to Sandomierz in 1845 for veneration. Other parts to his remains were moved in 1903 to Wawel and placed in a silver urn. In 1634 the Polish episcopate made a petition to Pope Urban VIII requesting his canonization. In 1650 the Bishop of Kraków Piotr Gembicki appointed a tribunal to hear witnesses for the cause but the commission never began its work which suspended the cause. Bishop Jan Małachowski - in 1683 -"
"and on 19 August was buried in the Cathedral of Gniezno. He was about 53 years old. He was remembered at that time as ""extremely shrewd, energetic and devout, looking forward to universal respect and trust"". Wincenty Kot Wincenty II Kot (c. 1395–1448) was a 15th-century Roman Catholic Archbishop of Gniezno, in Poland. He was born around 1395. Before he was elected Archbishop of Gniezno he was a teacher and tutor of the king's sons Wladyslaw and Kazimierz. Kot caught the attention of Wladyslaw Jagiello, on a visit to Lithuania. Kot soon after moved to the Wawel Castle, where the"
"his family crypt in Łowicz. Maciej Łubieński Maciej Łubieński (1572 in Łubna – 1652 in Łowicz), of Pomian coat of arms, was a primate of Poland, archbishop of Gniezno, bishop of Poznań, bishop of Kujawy and interrex in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was educated in Sieradz, Kalisz, Poznań and Kraków. In 1641 he became the archbishop of Gniezno and primate of Poland. During the Chmielnicki Uprising in 1648, after the death of Polish king Władysław IV Waza he became the interrex and in 1649 he crowned Jan II Kazimierz as the king of Poland. He died in Łowicz in 1652,"
"defeat at Berestechko. Among the 8,000 massacred Polish soldiers was Marek Sobieski. or the number could have been much higher, up to 15,000 killed in action and massacred. Sobieski's mother returned his body to his home, and to commemorate him she founded the Church of the Assumption of Mary in Żółkiew, which was built between 1653 and 1655. Sobieski was buried there in 1655 on the day the church was consecrated. His brother, King John III Sobieski, commissioned a gravestone by Andreas Schlüter made from black marble, which was destroyed after 1945. In 1946 Sobieski's body was taken to the"
"Józef Glemp, who had been archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw and retained Warsaw, was designated to remain Primate until his retirement, but afterward the Archbishop of Gniezno, at present Józef Kowalczyk, would again be Primate of Poland. Gniezno is twinned with: Gniezno Gniezno (; ) is a city in central-western Poland, about east of Poznań, with about 70,000 inhabitants. One of the Piast dynasty's chief cities, it was mentioned in 10th-century sources, possibly including the Dagome Iudex, as the capital of Piast Poland. The Roman Catholic archbishop of Gniezno is the primate of Poland, making it the country's ecclesiastical capital."
"however, by the end of Casimirs reign their relationship had soured, probably due to a rivalry with Fryderyk Jagiellończyk, the Bishop of Kraków and Casimir's relative. After the death of Casimir, he was a strong supporter for the election of Janusz III of Masovia to be the new king. He died on 2 February 1493 in Łowicz and was buried in the Cathedral of Gniezno, where his tomb was built with red marble by Veit Stoss. Zbigniew Oleśnicki (primate of Poland) Zbigniew Oleśnicki ( 1430–1493), nephew of Cardinal Zbigniew Oleśnicki, was a Roman Catholic clergyman and Polish politician. He served"
"end of the tenth century Duke Mieszko I of Poland built a new temple on a cruciform plan and remodeled the existing nave oratory. In the year 977 Duchess Dąbrówka, the wife of Mieszko I, was buried here. Before the arrival of St. Adalbert of Prague in Gniezno, Prince Bolesław I the Brave, later the first king of Poland, rebuilt the temple according to the plan of a rectangle, elevating it later to the rank of a Cathedral. In the year 999 the funeral of St. Adalbert took place and later also his canonization by Pope Sylvester II. In March"
"he managed a number of other missions but he died suddenly in Kraków on 8th or 9 October 1473 and was buried in Gniezno Cathedral, where his successor John devoted a magnificent tombstone of red marble. This now rests in a church founded by the Gruszczyńskich family in their estates near Iwanowice, Southern Poland. Jan Gruszczyński Jan Gruszczyński or John was a medieval Bishop of Kraków, Kujawski, Archbishop of Gniezno, Chancellor of the Crown and active diplomat. He was born at Sieradz, Central Poland in 1405AD into the Poraj Polish noble family. He was the son of a military officer"
"to win an opportunity to renew his homage to the Polish Kings Alexander (in 1501) and Sigismund I the Old (in 1506). Jan V died on 17 September 1513, murdered by a wealthy Polish nobleman, Wawrzyniec Myszkowski. The reason for the murder was very banal: water from the pond in Myszkowski's lands, who was given free to the townspeople by Jan V's orders, resulting in a significant financial loss to Myszkowski. Jan V was buried in Zator, although it's unknown in which of the parish churches. Zator was formally annexed to the Polish crown on 26 October of that year,"
"had been assembled as well as items of wider European historical interest, to which other deposits and loans were added by Polish collectors. Jarzębowski died in 1964 while on a religious retreat in Switzerland. His remains were brought back to Fawley Court for burial. They were exhumed in 2012 as a condition of the subsequent controversial sale by the Polish order of the Thames-side property. Józef Jarzębowski died with the opinion of sanctity and a request for his Beatification was deposited in 1993 with the Auxiliary bishop of Warsaw, Msgr. . Jarzębowski's current resting place is in the Fairmile cemetery,"
"ever in a single country – Kowalczyk had a considerable influence on the composition of the Catholic episcopate in Poland. On 8 May 2010, Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of retiring Archbishop Henryk Muszyński and nominated Kowalczyk as the new archbishop of Gniezno and primate of Poland. He was ceremoniously installed at the Gniezno Cathedral on 26 June 2010. The primatial title, which is traditionally held by the head of the oldest archbishopric in Poland, no longer carries significant power in national or church structures, but remains a prestigious honorific post. On 17 May 2014, Kowalczyk retired as Pope"
"of Mary. He died in Kraków on 17 September 1895 and was buried on 20 September. On 10 October his body was moved to Dzwiniaczka, and his remains were removed again in 1920 to Warsaw, where on 14 April 1921 they were moved to the crypt of the Cathedral of Saint John, where they still are today. Feliński criticized Zygmunt Krasiński's claim that Poland was a Christ among nations. Feliński said: Although my nation was the victim of a cruel injustice,"" Feliński wrote, ""it did not proceed to martyrdom either willingly or without sin, as did our Savior and the"
"Dziwisz, the Archbishop of Kraków, presiding. The homily was given by the Archbishop of Gniezno, Józef Kowalczyk, the incumbent Primate of Poland. Afterwards, the late primate was entombed in a crypt of the Cathedral. Primate Jozef Glemp said in 2005 that the Catholic Radio Maryja was causing a rift in the Church. During the controversy surrounding the alleged collaboration of bishop Stanislaw Wielgus with the communist secret services, Cardinal Glemp said that the prelate was a true servant of God and that media accusations against him were unfounded or exaggerated. Glemp gave a homily in 1989 for which he faced"
"Przyłuski with Cardinal Przyłuskiego, but Przyłuski died before this became effective. He died on March 12, 1865 in Poznań. He is buried in the Poznań Cathedral. His heart, according to his will and testament, is in the basement of the Cathedral of Gniezno. Leon Michał Przyłuski Leon Michał Przyłuski (1789–1865) was a Polish Roman Catholic Bishop who was Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland from 1845 to 1865. He was an active participant in the Polish independence movement of the late 1800s. Przyłuski was born in 1789 (probably on October 5) in Strzeszynku, to father, Stanisław (1747-1843) of the"
"Paul VI to the rank of a Minor Basilica, and visited by Pope John Paul II, who celebrated Mass for 200,000 people in a nearby open field in 1979. Under the reign of Abbot Erazm Ciołek (a relative of the noted scholar, Bishop Erazm Ciołek of Płock), who was elected as abbot in 1522, the abbey was restored to its former glory, with a greatly expanded collection of rare books. He died two years after being appointed the Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Kraków in 1544, and was buried in the abbey cemetery. This abbot employed the services of"
"did not turn a blind eye towards the civil unrest in 1980. When the Solidarity trade union was created in Poland, he appealed to both sides, the government as well as the striking workers, to be responsible for their actions. Cardinal Wyszyński, often called the Primate of the Millennium, died on 28 May 1981 at the age of 79 of abdominal cancer. He is buried in St. John's Archcathedral in Warsaw. The cardinal, who had heard of the assassination attempt on the pope, offered his own life for that of the pontiff's. To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of his death,"
"is unknown. According to former Polish Prime Minister Leon Kozlowski, who was also kept in Lubyanka, Prystor most likely died in August 1941, while Polish historian Wladyslaw Pobog-Malinowski claims that the death took place in October 1941. His symbolic grave is located at Powazki Cemetery in Warsaw. Aleksander Prystor Aleksander Błażej Prystor (; 2 January 1874–11 August 1941) was a Polish politician, soldier and activist who served as 23rd Prime Minister of Poland from 1931 to 1933. He was a member of the Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party and in 1908 took part in the Bezdany raid. Between"
"his family seat at Oporów. He was not very interested in the issues of the Gniezno diocese; instead he was focused on improving his own political power and wealth. In Oporów, he oversaw the construction of the Oporów Castle. He died on 11 March 1453 in the Oporów Castle, and was buried in the local church. Władysław Oporowski Władysław Oporowski (1395–1453) was a Polish medieval political and religious leader. Deputy Chancellor of Poland (1429–1434), Bishop of Kujawy (1434–1449), archbishop of Gniezno and primate of Poland (1449–1453). It is recognized that he was a much better diplomat and politician than church"
"this disgrace was the cause of his sudden death in 1531. Jan Łaski (1456–1531) Jan Łaski (1456 in Łask – 19 May 1531 in Kalisz, Poland) was a Polish nobleman, Grand Chancellor of the Crown (1503–10), diplomat, from 1490 secretary to Poland's King Casimir IV Jagiellon and from 1508 coadjutor to the Archbishop of Lwów. From 1510 Łaski was Archbishop of Gniezno and thus Primate of Poland. He was the uncle of his namesake Jan Łaski, the noted Protestant reformer. Łaski appears to have been largely self-taught. He became a priest, and in 1495 was secretary to the Polish chancellor"
"elected Pope Pius XI. The Cardinal died in Poznań, at age 56. He is buried in the cathedral of Gniezno. Edmund Dalbor Edmund Dalbor (30 October 1869 – 13 February 1926) was a Polish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Gniezno and Poznań, thus Primate of Poland, from 1915 until his death. Dalbor was elevated to the cardinalate in 1919. Edmund Dalbor was born in Ostrów Wielkopolski to Władysław and Katarzyna (née Rutkowska) Dalbor. Confirmed on 7 November 1889, he was educated at the Men's Grammar School in Ostrow, the University of Münster, and the"