Type: | Archbishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency |
Teofil Wolicki | |
Archdiocese of Gniezno | |
Church: | Roman Catholic |
Archdiocese: | Gniezno |
Enthroned: | 1828 |
Ended: | 1829 |
Ordination: | 1792 |
Consecration: | 15 May 1829 |
Coat Of Arms: | Herb Nabram.jpg |
Coat Of Arms Alt: | Episcopal coat of arms of Archbishop Teofil Wolicki, |
Birth Date: | 20 September 1768 |
Birth Place: | Godziętowy |
Death Date: | 21 December 1829 |
Death Place: | Poznań |
Nationality: | Polish |
Teofil Cyprian Wolicki (1768–1829) was an 18th-century Primate of Poland and Bishop of Poznań and Włocławek.
He was born 30 October 1768 in Doruchów.[1]
He graduated from seminary in Warsaw, and ordained a priest. Then he studied law and theology at the academy of Vilnius and in Rome.[2]
After his return to Poland, he worked in the Office of the Crown Chancellery and a library of Stanisław August Poniatowski, under the direction of Bishop John Baptist Albertrandi.
He became Archbishop of Gniezno on 17 May 1829.[3]
He died December 21, 1829, in Poznań.