Maria Jakub Próchniewski

Roman Maria Jakub Próchniewski (February 29, 1872 in Congress Poland - February 13, 1954 in Płock, Poland) was the Prime Bishop of the Mariavite Old Catholic Church from 1945 to 1953.

He graduated from the Saint Petersburg Roman Catholic Theological Academy. He served as a professor at the Theological Seminary in Lublin and, from 1903, as the provincial leader for Mariavites in the Lublin district. In 1906, he became the parish priest of the Mariavite parish in Płock.

Episcopal genealogy His episcopal genealogy is as follows:

Roman Catholic Church

Cardinal Scipione Rebiba Cardinal Giulio Antonio Santori Cardinal Girolamo Bernerio, O.P. Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi Cardinal Luigi Caetani Bishop Giovanni Battista Scanaroli Cardinal Antonio Barberini Archbishop Charles Maurice Le Tellier Bishop Jacques Bénigne Bossuet Bishop Jacques de Goyon de Matignon Bishop Dominique Marie Varlet

Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands

Archbishop Petrus Johannes Meindaerts Bishop Johannes van Stiphout Cardinal Walter van Nieuwenhuisen Bishop Adrian Jan Broekman Archbishop Johannes Jacobus van Rhijn Bishop Gisbert Cornelius de Jong Archbishop Willibrord van Os Bishop Jan Bon Archbishop Johannes van Santen

Old Catholic Church

Bishop Hermann Heykamp Bishop :nl:Gasparus Johannes van Rinkel Archbishop Gerardus Gul

Mariavite Church

Bishop Jan Maria Michał Kowalski Bishop Maria Jakub Próchniewski