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 college of the

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in Warsaw in 1764; he professed his

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on 24 November 1766 and was ordained a priest in 1771. While a Vincentian, he served as a professor and preacher; he left the Congregation in 1774. After leaving the Congregation, he served as parish priest in Pawłowice and Waniewo, later being appointed dean in

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. On 12 January 1798, Gołaszewski was appointed by Onufry Kajetan Szembek, bishop of Płock, as vicar and administrator of certain territories in the

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. Gołaszewski was appointed vicar general of the Diocese of Wigry in 1800 by Michał Franciszek Karpowicz, who was the diocese's first bishop. On 26 June 1805, Gołaszewski was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Wigry by

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; he was consecrated on 5 March 1809 in Warsaw by

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, with his co-consecrators being Tymoteusz Gorzeński and Antonin Malinowski. He was made a senator of

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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

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, 1st class. On 30 June 1818, the Diocese of Wigry was dissolved and Gołaszewski was made bishop of

Sejny Sejny (; ) 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 (), on the Marycha river ...

. He died on 8 March 1820 and was buried at the Church of the Holy Cross on 11 March.

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