Teofil Cyprian Wolicki


Teofil Cyprian Wolicki was an 18th-century Primate of Poland and Bishop of Poznań and Włocławek.

Life

He was born 30 October 1768 in Doruchów.
He graduated from Seminary in Warsaw, and ordained a priest. Then he studied law and theology at the Academy of Vilnius and in Rome.
After his return to Poland, he worked in the Office of the Crown Chancellery and a library of Stanisław August Poniatowski, under the direction of Bishop John Baptist Albertrandi.
He became Archbishop of Gniezno on 17 May 1829.
He died December 21, 1829 in Poznań.