Antoni Franciszek Ksawery Sotkiewicz (12 January 1826 4 May 1901) was a Roman Catholic bishop of

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and professor. Ordained a priest in 1849, he served as a professor in various institutions before being consecrated Bishop of Sandomierz in 1883.

Biography

Sotkiewicz was born on 12 January 1826. He begun attending the seminary in Sandomierz in 1842. He was ordained a

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on 25 July 1849 and a deacon on 29 July; he was ordained a priest on 5 August by

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. He obtained a doctorate of theology from the in 1850. On 24 August 1853, he was appointed viceregent and a professor of the diocesian seminary in Sandomierz. He was nominated a professor of church law at the Akademia Duchowna w Warszawie on 22 December 1861 and would serve as professor until 1867. He also served as the publisher and editor of , a Catholic weekly newspaper. On 15 November 1877, Sotkiewicz was made

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of the

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. He was consecrated Bishop of Sandomierz on 20 May 1883, with

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as primary consecrator and Karol Hryniewiecki & Szymon Marcin Kozłowski as co-consecrators. Sotkiewicz died during the night between 3 and 4 May 1901; he was buried in the cathedral at Sandomierz.

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