Stefan Antoni Mdzewski

Stefan Antoni Mdzewski, O.P. (1653–1718) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno (1699–1718) and Auxiliary Bishop of Lutsk (1690-1699).^[1][2][3]

Biography

Stefan Antoni Mdzewski was born in Plock in 1653 and ordained a priest in the Order of Preachers on 2 May 1671.^[1] On 11 Jan 1690, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Alexander VIII as Auxiliary Bishop of Lutsk and Titular Bishop of Calama.^[1] On 12 Mar 1690, he was consecrated bishop by Bogusław Leszczyński (bishop), Bishop of Lutsk, with Andrzej Chryzostom Załuski, Bishop of Kyiv and Chernihiv, serving as co-consecrator.^[1] On 13 Aug 1699, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XII as Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno.^[1] He served as Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno until his death on 16 May 1718.^[1]

Episcopal succession

While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of:^[1]

• Kazimierz Jan Szczuka, Bishop of Chelmno (1693);
• Kazimierz Łubieński, Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków (1701);
• Aleksander Benedykt Wyhowski, Bishop of Lutsk (1703); and
• Jan Mikolaj Łubieniecki, Bishop of Bacău (1711).

References

External links and additional sources

• Cheney, David M. "Diocese of Lutsk". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved January 4, 2019. (for Chronology of Bishops) ^{[self-published]}
• Chow, Gabriel. "Diocese of Lutsk (Ukraine)". GCatholic.org. Retrieved January 4, 2019. (for Chronology of Bishops) ^{[self-published]}