Ignacy Pawłowski

Ignacy Ludwik Pawłowski, Korwin coat of arms (4 February 1776 – 2 July 1842) was a Roman Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Mohilev from 1841 to his death in 1842. He previously served as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Kamianets-Podilskyi and titular bishop of Megara from 1827 to 1841.

Biography Ignacy Ludwik Pawłowski was born to Antoni and Franciszka Pawłowski , who were szlachta from the Podolia region. After attending a Basilian school in Bar, he began attending the seminary in Kamianets-Podilskyi in November 1799. He was ordained a deacon on 17 July 1800, and was ordained to the presbyteriate on 22 July 1800. He was appointed secretary of the consistory at Kamianets in 1801; he was appointed as a canon of its cathedral chapter in 1803 and, in the same year, was assigned to a parish in Dunaivtsi. He was appointed assessor for the same consistory in 1804.

Pawłowski served as secretary to between 1806 and 1809. He then served as assessor of the between 1815 and 1818.

On 15 March 1839, Pawłowski was appointed archbishop of the Archdiocese of Mohilev; he took an oath before Russian authorities on 4 April 1839, assuming control of the archdiocese without confirmation from the Holy See. To prevent violations of canon law, he was appointed apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese on 28 April 1839. His appointment was approved by Pope Gregory XVI on 1 March 1841, and he was given his pallium on 22 June 1841 at the Church of St. Catherine by . He was awarded the Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky the same year.

As Archbishop of Mohilev, Pawłowski began the transition of the Saint Petersburg Roman Catholic Theological Academy from Vilnius to Saint Petersburg; he established a temporary commission to oversee this transition. He also issued a decree that approved staffing for monastaries and diocesan administrations in the Western Krai. He died on 2 July 1842 in Tsarskoye Selo, and was buried at St. John the Baptist Church in Saint Petersburg.