Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski ( Pszczew, near
Poznań
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, 3 January 1778 – 5 October 1861,
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...
)
was the
Archbishop
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Metropolitan of
Warsaw
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and
spiritual leader
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of the nation during the
Partitions of Poland
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.
References
See also
*
List of Poles
This is a partial list of notable Polish or Polish-speaking or -writing people. People of partial Polish heritage have their respective ancestries credited.
Science
Physics
* Czesław Białobrzeski
* Andrzej Buras
* Georges Charpak ...
1778 births
1861 deaths
19th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Poland
Archbishops of Warsaw
Bishops of Płock
November Uprising participants
Clergy from Poznań
Canons of Włocławek
Burials at St. John's Archcathedral, Warsaw
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