Wincenty Teofil Popiel-Chościak (born 21 July 1825 in

Czaple Wielkie Czaple Wielkie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gołcza, within Miechów County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Gołcza, south-west of Miechów, and north of the regional ...

, died on 7 December 1912 in Warsaw) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest,

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from 1863 to 1875, Bishop of Kujawy–Kaliska from 1876 to 1883, and the metropolitan Archbishop of Warsaw from 1883 to 1912. Wincenty_Teofil_Popie

Life

Popiel was the son of Konstanty Popiel and Zofia von Badenich. He studied law in Warsaw, after which he went work in the judiciary. After his father's death, when he returned to Czaple Wielkie he decided to attend the seminary in

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( Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne w Kielcach). He completed his studies there in 1849. He was ordained a priest on 5 August 1849. He then studied at

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in Belgium, where he received a doctorate in theology. This was followed by studies in Rome. After returning to Kielce, he became a professor at the seminary and served as its vice-regens (vice-chairman). In 1862 he became the

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of the Theological Academy in Warsaw at the former monastery at the Church of St Francis. In 1863 he was appointed Bishop of Plock by Pope Pius IX. In 1868 he was exiled to Veliky Novgorod. On his return in 1876 he was appointed Bishop of Kujawy–Kaliska.

Notes and references

{{DEFAULTSORT:Popiel, Wincenty Teofil 1825 births 1912 deaths 19th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Poland Archbishops of Warsaw Bishops of Kujawy and Włocławek Bishops of Płock People from Miechów County Burials at St. John's Archcathedral, Warsaw