Type: | Archbishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency |
Archbishop of Gniezno | |
Hippolytus | |
Birth Date: | 10th century |
Death Date: | 1027 |
Church: | Roman Catholic |
Archdiocese: | Gniezno |
Enthroned: | before 1025 |
Ended: | 1027 |
Predecessor: | Radim Gaudentius |
Successor: | Bossuta Stefan |
Hippolytus or Hipolit (died c. 1027) was an early medieval archbishop of Gniezno.[1] 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.[2]
He was appointed Bishop between 18 April 1025 and 25 December 1025 in Gniezno Cathedral by Bolesław I the Brave and was primate of Poland through the last part of Boleslaw's reign and the beginning of Mieszko II Lambert's.
On April 18, 1025, he crowned Boleslaw I the Brave and on December 25, 1025, Mieszko II Lambert as the kings of Poland in his Gniezno cathedral.He died in 1027 and is buried in Gniezno Cathedral.