Jan Wężyk (1575–1638), of

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, was a Polish noble and Roman Catholic bishop and

Primate of Poland This is a list of archbishops of the Archdiocese of Gniezno, who are simultaneously primates of Poland since 1418.Wola Wężykowa,

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in 1575."Archbishop Jan Wężyk"
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''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved July 3, 2016 In 1619, he was selected by the King of Poland as

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and confirmed by

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on 17 Feb 1620. Later in 1620, he was consecrated bishop by Wawrzyniec Gembicki, Archbishop of Gniezno. On 13 May 1624, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as

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and installed on 1 Jul 1624. In 1626, he was selected by the King of Poland as Archbishop of Gniezno and

Primate of Poland This is a list of archbishops of the Archdiocese of Gniezno, who are simultaneously primates of Poland since 1418."Archdiocese of Gniezno"
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''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved July 3, 2016"Metropolitan Archdiocese of Gniezno"
''GCatholic.org''. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved July 3, 2016 He served as

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(for 9 months) after the death of king

Sigismund III Vasa Sigismund III Vasa ( pl, Zygmunt III Waza, lt, Žygimantas Vaza; 20 June 1566 – 30 April 1632 N.S.) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and, as Sigismund, King of Sweden and Grand Duke of Finland from 1592 to ...

in 1632, before the

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. As the interrerx he supported improving the procedures of the royal elections. He was a political ally of Polish queen consort

Constance of Austria Constance of Austria (german: Konstanza; pl, Konstancja; 24 December 1588 – 10 July 1631) was Queen of Poland as the second wife of King Sigismund III Vasa and the mother of King John II Casimir. Biography Constance was a daughter of Charles ...

, and took part in reform of

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in Poland. He authored ''Synodus provincialis Gnesnensis A.D. 1628 die 22 mai celebrata'' (1629), ''Synodus provincialis Gnesensis'' (1634), and ''Constitutiones Synodorum Metropolitanae Ecclesiae Gnesnensis Provincialium'' (1630). He served as Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland until his death on 27 May 1638.

Episcopal succession

} and the principal co-consecrator of: * Maciej Łubieński,

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(1621).

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Catholic-hierarchy.org entryList of Primates of Poland
1575 births 1638 deaths Bishops of Przemyśl Bishops of Poznań Archbishops of Gniezno Canons of Kraków 17th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Polish interreges Bishops appointed by Pope Paul V Bishops appointed by Pope Urban VIII {{Poland-RC-archbishop-stub