Paweł Holszański ( lt, Povilas Alšėniškis; – 4 September 1555,

Vilnius Vilnius ( , ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of 592,389 (according to the state register) or 625,107 (according to the municipality of Vilnius). The population of Vilnius's functional urb ...

) was a notable Catholic church official

Dmitry Tolstoy Count Dmitry Andreyevich Tolstoy (russian: Дми́трий Андре́евич Толсто́й; , Moscow – , Saint Petersburg) was a Russian statesman, a member of the State Council of Imperial Russia (1866). He belonged to the comital b ...

: ''Le catholicisme romain en Russie''
pp.464-465
/ref> and one of the last male scions of the once-mighty Lithuanian Olshanski princely family of the

Grand Duchy of Lithuania The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a European state that existed from the 13th century to 1795, when the territory was partitioned among the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Habsburg Empire of Austria. The state was founded by Lit ...

. Born to Prince Aleksander Holszański, the Castellan of

, and Zofia Sudymuntowiczówna, Rita Regina Trimoniene:
Polityka jagiellońska a kształtowanie się litewskiego narodu politycznego w końcu XV – I połowie XVI wieku
' between 1507 and 1536 he served as

Bishop of Lutsk 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 ...

and then from 15 March 1536 to his death as

Bishop of Vilnius Bishops of Vilnius (Vilna, Wilna, Wilno) diocese from 1388 and archdiocese (archdiocese of Vilnius) from 1925:

. During his term as bishop, Holszański created several dozen new parishes in the Polish-Lithuanian borderlands. He was also responsible for convincing the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania

Sigismund II Augustus Sigismund II Augustus ( pl, Zygmunt II August, lt, Žygimantas Augustas; 1 August 1520 – 7 July 1572) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the son of Sigismund I the Old, whom Sigismund II succeeded in 1548. He was the first ruler ...

to expel

Marceli Kosman Marceli Kosman (born 8 May 1940 in Izbica Kujawska) is a Polish historian. Professor of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He finished secondary school in 1957. Then he studied at the university in Poznań. He gained MA in history in 196 ...

: ''Protestanci i kontrreformacja: z dziejów tolerancji w Rzeczypospolitej XVI-XVIII wieku''
p.51
/ref>

Stanislovas Rapalionis Stanislovas Svetkus Rapolionis ( la, Stanislaus Rapagel(l)anus, Stanislaus Lituanus, pl, Stanisław Rafajłowicz; – May 13, 1545) was a Lutheran activist and Protestant reformer from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. With patronage of Albert, Duke ...

and

Abraomas Kulvietis Abraomas Kulvietis ( la, Abraham Culvensis; pl, Abraham Kulwieć; c. 1509 – 19 June 1545) was a Lithuanian Lutheran jurist and a professor at Königsberg Albertina University, as well as a reformer of the church. Kulvietis was born in Kulva, ...

, two pioneers of

Lutheranism Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Catholic Church launched th ...

in Lithuania.A.Bumblauskas. Senosios Lietuvos istorija. 2005 p. 236-237 He died in Vilnius on September 4, 1555.

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