Archbishop Łukasz Baraniecki (; ; 14 October 1798 – 30 June 1858) was a Roman Catholic prelate, who served as a Metropolitan Archbishop of the

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from 28 September 1849 until his death on 30 June 1858.

Life

Archbishop Baraniecki was born in the

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Polish Roman Catholic family in the present day

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. After graduation of the school and

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college in

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education, he subsequently joined Faculty of Theology of the

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and the Major Roman Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv. He was ordained as

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on October 6, 1822, for the

by Archbishop Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz, when completed of the philosophical and theological studies. After his ordination, he served as an assistant priest, and later as a parish priest in the different parishes throughout his native Archdiocese. In 1838 he was appointed as a dean of the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, Lviv and simultaneously as a dean of Lviv deanery. This service he fulfilled until his archbishop's nomination. On September 28, 1849, he was confirmed by the

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as a Metropolitan Archbishop of

. On January 13, 1850, he was consecrated as bishop by Bishop Franciszek Ksawery Wierzchleyski and other prelates of the

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and the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, Lviv. Archbishop Baraniecki died, while in the office, on June 30, 1858, during a canonical visitation by cause of a stroke and was buried in the crypt of the Mary Gromnicza Church.

References

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