Michał Nowodworski (1831–1896) was a 19th-century

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Płock Płock (pronounced ) is a city in central Poland, on the Vistula river, in the Masovian Voivodeship. According to the data provided by GUS on 31 December 2021, there were 116,962 inhabitants in the city. Its full ceremonial name, according to th ...

in Poland. Michael Nowodworski was born on 27 July 1831 in

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; he was

Bishop of Płock A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop i ...

, a publisher and a publicist. He was

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in 1854 and from 1859, he began working with a journal ''Diary Religion and Moral''. He was known as a great patriot, which is why he was

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to the province of

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. He was able to return to Poland in 1868; however, he was not allowed to live in the

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. In 1889, he became the bishop of the

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, where his particular attention was on raising the standards of the local

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, and to increase intellectual culture of the

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. He died on 12 June 1896 in

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and was buried in the Cathedral of Płock, where a bronze

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made by Pius Weloński stands in the church

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.Michael Nowodworski, Encyklopedja Church Theological podług Encyklopedji Wetzer and Weltego with many of its complements (Czerwinski and Company).

References

1831 births 1896 deaths Bishops of Płock {{Poland-RC-bishop-stub