Michał Karpowicz

Michał Franciszek Karpowicz (; 4 October 1744 – 5 November 1803) was a professor of the Vilnius University, participant of the Kościuszko Uprising, and Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Wigry. Karpowicz is regarded as the most famous preacher of the Age of Enlightenment in Lithuania and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. and was made archdeacon of Smolensk in 1776.

On 22 November 1783, Karpowicz was made professor of dogmatic theology at Vilnius University. co-consecrated by Tomasz Ostaszewski and Adam Michał Prażmowski. He died on 5 November 1803 in Berżniki and was buried on 12 December 1803 at the monastery in Wigry.