Published: 2018-01-01

Pastoral and political activity of bishop Jan Klemens Gołaszewski (1748–1820)

Ryszard Sawicki
Warszawskie Studia Pastoralne
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/wsp.2017.12.1.34.06

Abstract

Erected after the third partition of Poland Wigry diocese existed less than 20 years (1799-1818). Her shepherds were in turn: bishop Michał Franciszek Karpowicz and bishop Jan Klemens Golaszewski. Unfortunately, their life and work and the role, which they played in the history of the Roman Catholic Church and our homeland, stay largely not well known. The shape of the article considerable influenced the stages of the life of bishop. Jan Klemens Gołaszewski and the sphere of his activity which I have shown on the background of socio-political situation during two partitions: Prussian and Russian. This article brings many new important arrangements concerning the bishop Jan Klemens Gołaszewski – bishop of Wigry and Augustów, which means bishop of Sejny and senator of Principality of Warsaw and the Congress Kingdom. The article presents the characteristic picture of pastoral and political activity of the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in the late eighteenth century and in the early nineteenth century. This work enriches existing knowledge about the extremely difficult relationships between the Church and the Prussian, Russian and French authorities. The unstable and rapidly changing political situation brought bishop. Jan Klemens Gołaszewski many difficulties and disappointments.



Keywords:

bishop Jan Klemens Golaszewski, diocese of Wigry, Camaldolese monastery in Wigry, Prussian Partition, Russian Partition, Napoleonic wars, Principality of Warsaw, the Congress Kingdom, the history of Roman Catholic church in the 18th and 19th centuries

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Sawicki, R. (2018). Pastoral and political activity of bishop Jan Klemens Gołaszewski (1748–1820). Warszawskie Studia Pastoralne, 1(34), 89–115. https://doi.org/10.21697/wsp.2017.12.1.34.06

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