Jan Klemens Gołaszewski (23 November 1748 – 8 March 1820) was a Roman Catholic bishop of Sejny.
Biography
Gołaszewski was born in 1748 to Francziszek and Joanna Gołaszewski. He began attending a
Vincentian college in Warsaw in 1764; he professed his
religious vows
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on 24 November 1766 and was ordained a priest in 1771. He left the
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in 1774. On 12 January 1798, Gołaszewski was appointed by Onufry Kajetan Szembek, bishop of Płock, as vicar and administrator of certain territories in the
Diocese of Płock
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History
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. Gołaszewski was appointed vicar general of the
Diocese of Wigry #REDIRECT Wigry, Suwałki County#Ecclesiastical history
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in 1800 by
Michał Franciszek Karpowicz, who was the diocese's first bishop.
On 26 June 1805, Gołaszewski was appointed bishop of Wigry by
Pius VII; he was consecrated on 5 March 1809 in Warsaw by Ignacy Raczyński, with his co-consecrators being
Tymoteusz Gorzeński
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and Antonin Malinowski. He was made a senator of
Congress Poland
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in 1808, which he served as until his death in 1820;
while a senator, he served on committees for religion and public blessing, and was later awarded the
Order of Saint Stanislaus
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, 1st class.
On 30 June 1818, the Diocese of Wigry was dissolved and Gołaszewski was made bishop of
Sejny
Sejny ( lt, Seinai) is a town in north-eastern Poland and the capital of Sejny County, in Podlaskie Voivodeship, close to the northern border with Lithuania and Belarus. It is located in the eastern part of the Suwałki Lake Area ( pl, Pojezier ...
. He died on 8 March 1820 and was buried at the
Church of the Holy Cross on 11 March.
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Polish Roman Catholic bishops
1748 births
1820 deaths
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