Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz

Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz (; ; ; 22 June 1777 – 26 March 1838) was the Roman Catholic archbishop of Lwów (Lviv) in 1815–1833 and archbishop of Prague in 1833–1838.

Life

Ankwicz was born in 1777 in Kraków, Polish Crown. Studied in his native city and the in Vienna; ordained a priest on 2 September 1810. Then became a canon of the Olomouc Cathedral chapter and was elected to the position of rector of the Theological faculty of the Olomouc University.

In 1815, he was appointed and ordained Archbishop of Lviv (then the metropolis of the Galicia-Lodomeria, a crown land of the Austrian Empire, now in Ukraine). He remained in this capacity for 18 years until 30 September 1833.

Coronation of Emperor Ferdinand I as Bohemian King in the Cathedral in Prague. Watercolor by Eduard Gurk, 1836. This coronation, the last of its kind ever, was led by Archbishop Ankwicz. Subsequently, he was sent to another then-Austrian land, Bohemia, to be appointed as the 24th Archbishop of Prague (and at the same time 13th Primas Bohemiae). With this honorary title he had right to coronate Bohemian kings which he indeed exercised on 7 September 1836 when crowned Ferdinand V as the King of Bohemia in the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague – it proved to be the last Bohemian coronation ever.

Died at the age of 60 years on 26 March 1838 and was buried in the Saxon (or St Adalbert′s) chapel of the choir of St. Vitus Cathedral, to be succeeded in his archbishopric by Alois Josef Schrenk.