Stanisław Łubieński (1573 in
Łubna – 16 April 1640 in
Wyszków
Wyszków (; yi, ווישקאָוו ''Vishkov'') is a town in eastern Poland with 26,500 inhabitants (2018). It is the capital of Wyszków County in Masovian Voivodeship.
History
The village of Wyszków was first documented in 1203. It was grant ...
), of
Pomian coat of arms, was a Polish noble, politician and bishop.
Royal Secretary of king
Sigismund III of Poland
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 ...
from 1591;
regent
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of
Royal Chancellery
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 ...
from 1614,
Crown Secretary,
bishop of Łuck
The Roman Catholic diocese of Lutsk was first established in the 13th century as the diocese of Luceoria (Latin) or Łuck (Polish). After the victory of Napoleon, the diocese was joined with the diocese of Zhytomyr, forming the diocese of Lutzk-Zh ...
from 1622,
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 ...
from 1626 (to 1628) and
bishop of Płock
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In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...
from 1627.
He was a
Catholic
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priest and a strong supporter of
counterreformation
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. Friend of the poet
Maciej Sarbiewski,
himself he was an author of many important historical chronicles of that period, among them a detailed description of
rokosz of Zebrzydowski.
Selected works
*''Brevis narratio profectionis in Sueciam Sigismundi III...'', 1593;
*''De ortu, vita et morte Mathiae de Bużenin Pstrokoński...'' (1630);
*''Ce motu civili in Polonia libri quatuor, Series. vitea, res gestes episcoporum Plocensium...'', Kraków 1642;
*'Opera posthuma historica historopolitica variigue discursus epistolae et aliquot orationes... (1643);
*''Droga do Szwecji'';
*''Rozruchy domowe''.
References
Ecclesiastical senators of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
1573 births
1640 deaths
17th-century Polish historians
Polish male non-fiction writers
17th-century Polish nobility
Bishops of Płock
Abbots of Tyniec
17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
People from Sieradz County
Crown Vice-Chancellors
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