Konstanty Ireneusz Łubieński,
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History
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(19 February 1825 – 16 June 1869) was a Roman Catholic bishop of the
Diocese of Sejny or Augustów.
Biography
Łubieński was born in
Warsaw
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. He was the son of
Henryk Łubieński
Henryk Jan Nepomucen Łubieński, Pomian coat of arms, (11 July 1793, in Prague – 17 September 1883, in Wiskitki, Poland) – was the scion of a Polish magnate family, landowner, financier, lawyer, early industrialist, economic activist, and ...
, the vice-president of
Bank Polski
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, and Irena Łubieński (). After homeschooling and completing a philosophy course in
Fribourg
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, he entered the diocesan seminary of the Diocese of Kielce in 1846.
On 5 August 1846, he was given a
tonsure
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and ordained to the
minor orders
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of porter and lector by Tadeusz Łubieński. In 1847, he began attending the seminary at the
Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw; there, he was ordained to the subdiaconate on 20 May 1849 and to the diaconate on 2 August 1849. He was ordained a priest at the Church of the Holy Cross on 15 July 1849 by Tadeusz Łubieński. After his ordination and brief arrest, Łubieński was appointed vicar of the Church of the Holy Cross, as well as its seminary. He served as its vicar until 1850, when he was appointed vicar and administrator for the parish of
Wiskitki
Wiskitki is a town in Żyrardów County, Masovian Voivodeship, in central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Wiskitki. It is located approximately north-west of Żyrardów and west of Warsaw.
The town ha ...
.
Łubieński was appointed vicar for the
Church of St. Catherine in Saint Petersburg in 1854. He was later appointed provost for the Church of St. John of Jerusalem of St. Petersburg in 1858 and provost of the parish in Rewla in 1860.
Łubieński was appointed bishop of the
Diocese of Sejny or Augustów on 20 March 1863. He was consecrated on 20 December 1863 in
Janów Podlaski
Janów Podlaski () is a town in Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Janów Podlaski. It lies approximately north of Bi ...
by Piotr Paweł Benjamin Szymański, bishop of
Podlasia, assisted by Józef Twarowski and Henryk Ludwik Plater. He assumed control of the Diocese on 3 October 1863.
As bishop of Sejny or Augustów, Łubieński reformed the diocesan seminary and organized the diocese into 11 diaconates.
After releasing an encyclical on 19 October 1867, he was arrested and was deported to the interior of Russia on 31 May 1869.
He died on 16 June 1869 in Nizhny Novgorod.
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1825 births
1869 deaths
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