Jan Tarnowski (c. 1550 – 14 September 1605 in
Łowicz, Poland) was
Archbishop
In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office. In most cases, such as the Catholic Church, there are many archbishops who either have jurisdiction over an ecclesiastical province in addition to their own archdi ...
of
Gniezno and
Primate of Poland. His coat of arms was
Rola.
Jan was secretary of King
Stefan Batory of
Poland and a trusted adviser of King
Sigismund III Vasa of Poland. In 1581 he became
Referendarz of the Crown and in 1591
Deputy Chancellor of the Crown
Chancellor of Poland ( pl, Kanclerz - , from la, cancellarius) was one of the highest officials in the historic Poland. This office functioned from the early Polish kingdom of the 12th century until the end of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwea ...
. He became also bishop of
Poznań in 1598, bishop of
Kujawy in 1600 and in 1604 Archbishop of Kraków and simultaneously Primate of Poland.
[Urzędnicy centralni i nadworni Polski XIV-XVIII wieku, Kórnik 1992, page. 136.]
References
External links
Virtual tour Gniezno Cathedral List of Primates of Poland
Chancellors of Poland
Archbishops of Gniezno
Bishops of Poznań
16th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
17th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
1550s births
1605 deaths
Jan
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