Seweryn Morawski
Catholic bishop and public figure
About Seweryn Morawski
Lived 1819 – 1900 (aged 81). Seweryn Morawski was a politician, catholic priest, catholic deacon, catholic bishop, writer and archbishop.
Archbishop Seweryn Tytus Morawski (; ; 2 January 1819 – 2 May 1900) was a Roman Catholic prelate, who served as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv and a Titular Bishop of Trapezopolis from 13 May 1881 until 27 March 1885 and as the Metropolitan Archbishop of the same Archdiocese from 27 March 1885 until his death on 2 May 1900.
Life Archbishop Morawski was born in the szlachta Polish Roman Catholic family in the present day Ternopil Raion. After graduation of the gymnasium education, he subsequently joined Faculty of Philology of the University of Lviv (1834–1836), but left his studies, because of his father's death and his own illness. In 1837–1841 he graduated Faculty of Low at the same university and in 1841–1849 worked as a public servant in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria government. After that, Morawski joined Faculty of Theology of the University of Lviv and the Major Roman Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv in 1849, was ordained as priest on August 31, 1851, for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv,
On May 13, 1881, he was appointed by the Pope Leo XIII as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv and a Titular Bishop of Trapezopolis. On June 26, 1881, he was consecrated as bishop by Metropolitan Archbishop Franciszek Ksawery Wierzchleyski and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church and the Armenian Catholic Church in the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, Lviv. In the same time he was nominated as a Vicar General of the Archdiocese.
On April 18, 1884, with the death of Metropolitan Franciszek Ksawery Wierzchleyski, he became a Vicar capitular of the Archdiocese and on March 27, 1885, was confirmed by the Holy See as a Metropolitan Archbishop.
Archbishop Morawski died, while in the office, on May 2, 1900, and was buried in the crypt of the seminarian chapel.
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Catholic bishop and public figure
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Seweryn Morawski was born on 2 January 1819 in Siltse.
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Seweryn Morawski died on 2 May 1900 in Lviv.
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Seweryn Morawski was a politician, catholic priest, catholic deacon, catholic bishop, writer and archbishop.
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