Kacper Kazimierz Cieciszowski

Kacper Kazimierz Ciecikowski (5 January 1745 – 28 April 1831) was a Roman Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Mohilev from 1828 until his death in 1831. He previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Lutsk-Zhytomyr from 1798 to 1828 and as bishop of the Diocese of Kijów-Czernihów from 1784 to 1798.

Biography

Early life & coadjutor bishop of Kijów-Czernihów Cieciszowski was born in Ozorów to Dominik Cieciszowski, the deputy cup-bearer of Lviv, and Marcjanna Suffczyńska; he was baptized on 12 January 1745 at Wodynie. In 1760, he began attending the Pontificio Collegio Urbano de Propaganda Fide in Rome, where he was tonsured and was ordained to minor orders on 18 December 1762. He was ordained to the subdiaconate on 17 December 1768, the diaconate on 18 February 1769 and finally to the priesthood on 11 March 1769.

On 12 December 1768, Ciecizowski was appointed a canon of the cathedral chapter of the Diocese of Warsaw. He returned from Rome to Poland in 1769 and, in 1770, was appointed parish priest at Zbuczyn. Cieciszowski was appointed coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Kijów-Czernihów by Stanisław August Poniatowski on 13 March 1775. He was preconized as coadjutor bishop of Kijów-Czernihów and titular bishop of Theveste by Pope Pius VI on 29 June of the same year. He was consecrated at St. John's Archcathedral in Warsaw on 8 October 1775 by Andrzej Młodziejowski. His co-consecrators were Antoni Onufry Okęcki and Gabriel Wodzyński.

In 1780, Cieciszkowski was appointed vicarius in spiritualibus for Warsaw and Masovia. He was appointed vicar of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Miechów on 22 March 1781 and was awarded the Order of Saint Stanislaus the following year.

Bishop of Kijów-Czernihów and senator After the death of Franciszek Kandyd Ossoliński on 7 August 1784, Cieciszowski became bishop of the Diocese of Kijów-Czernihów. He assumed canonical control of the Diocese on 8 October 1784 and ceremonially assumed control at Saint Sophia Cathedral in Zhytomyr on 16 July 1785. As its bishop, Cieciszkowski opened a seminary at Zhytomyr in 1785.

On , Cieciszowski was appointed archbishop of the Archdiocese of Mohilev, president of the , and deputy of the Senate. Furthermore, he was awarded the Order of St. Andrew on 25 April 1828. His appointment as archbishop of Mohilev was recognized by Pope Leo XII on 23 June of the same year; Cieciszowski died on 26 April 1831 in Lutsk; he was buried at Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral in Lutsk.