Jan Karol Dowgiałło Zawisza (1597 – 9 March 1661) was a

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clergyman and

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for the

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. He became ordained in 1657. He was appointed bishop in 1656. He died on 9 March 1661.

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1597 births 1661 deaths 17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth {{Poland-RC-bishop-stub