Paweł Holszański

Paweł Holszański
Coat of arms	Hipocentaur
Born	ca. 1490
Died	4 September 1555 in Wilno

Paweł Holszański (Lithuanian: Povilas Alšėniškis; ca. 1485 ^[1] – September 4, 1555, Vilnius ^[2]) was a notable Catholic church official^[3] and one of the last male scions of the once-mighty Lithuanian Olshanski princely family of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Born to Prince Aleksander Holszański, the Castellan of Vilnius, and Zofia Sudymuntowiczówna,^[4] between 1507 and 1536 he served as Bishop of Łuck (modern Lutsk, Ukraine) and then between March 15, 1536, and his death as Bishop of Vilnius.

Paweł Holszański's coat-of-arms

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 to expel ^[5] Stanislovas Rapalionis and Abraomas Kulvietis, two pioneers of Lutheranism in Lithuania.^[6] He died in Vilnius on September 4, 1555.

Bibliography

• Krzysztof Rafał Prokop: Sylwetki biskupów łuckich. Biały Dunajec: Ostróg : "Wołanie z Wołynia", 2001. ISBN 83-911918-7-7.
• Wileński słownik biograficzny. Bydgoszcz: 2002, s. 104. ISBN 83-87865-28-1.

Notes and references

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1. The date is uncertain and some sources cite 1486 or even 1436, the latter probably being an error
2. Lietuviškoji tarybinė enciklopedija. T-1 p.171
3. (French) Dmitry Tolstoy: Le catholicisme romain en Russie, pp.464-465
4. (Polish) Rita Regina Trimoniene: Polityka jagiellońska a kształtowanie się litewskiego narodu politycznego w końcu XV – I połowie XVI wieku
5. (Polish) Marceli Kosman: Protestanci i kontrreformacja: z dziejów tolerancji w Rzeczypospolitej XVI-XVIII wieku, p.51
6. A.Bumblauskas. Senosios Lietuvos istorija. 2005 p. 236-237