List of bishops of Poznań

Given below is the list of bishops of Poznań.

Bishops of Poznań

Name	Years on bishops throne	Notes
Jordan	968 – ca.983	Missionary bishop of Poland with seat in Poznań, probably subordinate directly to the pope [1] or subordinate to the archbishop of Mainz. [2] Date of death uncertain (between 982 and 984) [3]
Unger	ca.983/992–1012	At first missionary bishop of Poland, from 1000 ordinary bishop of Poznań independent of the archdiocese of Gniezno; after 1004 subordinate to a metropolitan archbishop of Magdeburg. [4] [5] [6] Date of ingres unclear, consecrated certainly in 982 or 983, but arrived to Poland perhaps only in 992
Romanus [7]	(?) – 1030	Unsure if he was bishop of Poznań. Date of ingres unknown (perhaps 1012)
Ederam [8]	1030s.	Exact dates unknown. Destruction of the diocese ca. 1038 due to pagan uprising and invasion of Bretislaus I, Duke of Bohemia. [9] Bishop Ederam died before 1049 [10]
Franko [11]	ca.1085	First known bishop of Poznań, subordinate to a metropolitan archbishop of Gniezno, after the diocese was reestablished in 1076. Dates of ingres and death unknown (perhaps 1076 and ca. 1100)
Eckhard [12]	ca. 1100–1103?	Date of ingres uncertain (between 1097 and 1102). Date of the end of the episcopate unsure (he may have been deposed in 1103) [13]
Heinrich von Siegburg [14]	ca. 1105	Dates of ingres and death unknown (perhaps 1103 and ca. 1109)
Paweł [15]	ca. 1112/1113	Dates of ingres and death unknown (the first probably before 1110)
Bogufał I	? -1146	date of ingres is unknown
Pean	1146–1152
Stefan	1152–1159
Bernard	1159–1164
Radwan	1164–1172
Cherubin	1172–1180	date of end of service is unsure
Arnold I	1180–1186	date of ingres is unsure
Świętosław	ca.1186?	Name and date unsure [16]
Gerward	ca.1187?	Name and date unsure [16]
Benedykt	1193	Dates of ingres and death unknown (first perhaps 1187, the second 1193/95) [17]
Mrokota	? – 1196	Date of ingres unknown (between 1193 and 1196)
Arnold II	1201–1211	Date of ingres unknown (perhaps 1196) [18]
Filip	1211
Paweł	1211–1242
Bogufał II	1242–1253
Piotr	1253–1254
Bogufał III of Czerniejewo	1254–1264
Falanta	1265–1267
Mikołaj I	1267–1278
Jan I of Wysokowce, Łodzia coat of arms	1278–1285
Jan II Gerbicz, Nałęcz coat of arms	1285–1297
Andrzej Zaremba	1297–1317	date of end of service is unsure
Domarat Grzymała	1318–1324	date of ingres in unsure
Jan III, Doliwa coat of arms	1324–1335
Jan IV of Kępa, Łodzia coat of arms	1335–1346
Andrzej of Wiślica	1347–1348	later bishop of Zwierzyniec
Wojciech Pałuka	1348–1355
Jan V of Lutogniewo, Doliwa coat of arms	1356–1374
Mikołaj II of Górka (of Kórnik) Łodzia coat of arms	1375–1382
Jan Kropidło	1382–1384	Duke of Opole, later bishop of Włocławek, Kamień, Chełmno, nominated archbishop of Gniezno and again bishop of Włocławek
Dobrogost of Nowy Dwór Nałęcz coat of arms	1384–1395	later archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland
Mikołaj Kurowski, Szreniawa coat of arms	1395–1399	later bishop of Włocławek, archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland
Wojciech Jastrzębiec	1399–1412
Piotr Wysz Radoliński, Leszczyc coat of arms	1413–1414
Andrzej Łaskarz Gosławski, Godziemba coat of arms	1414–1426
Mirosław Brudzewski, Nałęcz coat of arms	1426–1427
Stanisław Ciołek of Żelichowo and Ostrołęka	1428–1437
Andrzej Bniński, Łodzia coat of arms	1438–1479
Uriel Górka, Łodzia coat of arms	1479–1498
Jan Lubrański, Godziemba coat of arms	1498–1520	fundator of Lubrański Academy
Piotr Tomicki, Łodzia coat of arms	1520–1525	later bishop of Cracow
Jan Latalski	1525–1536	later bishop of Cracow, archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland
John of the Lithuanian Dukes	1536–1538	Illegitimate son of Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland
Stanisław Oleśnicki of Pinczów	1538–1539
Sebastian Branicki	1539–1544
Paweł Dunin Wolski	1544–1546
Benedykt Izdbieński	1546–1553
Andrzej Czarnkowski	1553–1562
Adam Konarski	1562–1574
vacant
Łukasz Kościelecki	1577–1597
Jan Tarnowski	1598–1600	later bishop of Włocławek, archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland
Wawrzyniec Goślicki, Grzymała coat of arms	1601–1607
Andrzej Opaliński	1607–1623
Jan Wężyk	1624–1627	later archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland
Maciej Łubieński	1627–1631	later bishop of Włocławek, archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland
Adam Nowodworski	1631–1634
Henryk Firlej	1635
Andrzej Szołdrski	1636–1650
Florian Kazimierz Czartoryski	1650–1655	later bishop of Włocławek, archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland
Wojciech Tolibowski	1655–1663
Stefan Wierzbowski	1664–1687
Stanisław Witwicki	1688–1698
Mikołaj Święcicki	1699–1707
vacant
Mikołaj Bartłomiej Tarło	1710–1715
Krzysztof Antoni Szembek	1716–1720	later bishop of Włocławek, archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland
Piotr Tarło	1721–1722
Jan Joachim Tarło	1722–1732
Stanisław Józef Hozjusz	1733–1738
Teodor Kaziemirz Czartoryski	1739–1768
Andrzej Stanisław Młodziejowski	1768–1780
Antoni Onufry Okęcki	1780–1793
Ignacy Raczyński	1794–1806	later archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland
vacant
Tymoteusz Gorzeński	1809–1821	later archbishop of Gniezno, Primate of Poland.
In 1821 raised to status of metropolis and personal union with Gniezno archbishopric, primates of Poland.
Tymoteusz Gorzeński	1821–1825
vacant
Teofil Wolicki	1828–1829
vacant
Marcin Dunin	1831–1842
vacant
Leon Przyłuski	1845–1865
Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski	1866–1886	cardinal
Juliusz Dinder	1886–1890
Florian Oksza Stablewski	1891–1906
vacant
Edward Likowski	1914–1915
Edmund Dalbor	1915–1926	cardinal
August Hlond	1926–1946	cardinal, after 1946 Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw, primate of Poland
In 1946 dissolution of personal union between archbishoprics of Poznań and Gniezno
Walenty Dymek	1946–1956
Antoni Baraniak	1957–1977
Jerzy Stroba	1978–1996
Juliusz Paetz	1996–2002
Stanisław Gądecki	2002–2025
Zbigniew Zieliński	since 2025

Auxiliary Bishops

• Stanisław Dzedziński (1568-1573) ^[19]

See also

• Goswin (bishop of Poznań)
• Archdiocese of Poznań
• Archcathedral Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul, Poznań

Notes

1. Paul Fridolin Kehr, Das Erzbistum Magdeburg und die erste Organisation der Christlichen Kirche in Polen, (in:) Abhandlungen der Königlich preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1920, passim; Jerzy Strzelczyk: Mieszko I, Poznań 1992, p.142-143; Stanisław Trawkowski: Początki Kościoła w Polsce za panowania Mieszka I, (in:) Civitas Schinesghe. Mieszko I i początki państwa polskiego. Poznań – Gniezno 2004, p. 49-70
2. Stanisław Szczur, Historia Polski. Średniowiecze, Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 2002, ISBN   83-08-03272-9
3. Kehr, p. 25
4. cf. Paul Fridolin Kehr, Das Erzbistum Magdeburg und die erste Organisation der Christlichen Kirche in Polen , (in:) Abhandlungen der Königlich preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1920, p. 45-47; and Jerzy Strzelczyk: Mieszko I, Poznań 1992, p.142-143
5. Poland – Ecclesiastical organization
6. Bistum Magdeburg: Gebiet mit großer Geschichte Archived 10 February 2013 at archive.today
7. Kętrzyński, Studia..., p. 311; Kehr, p. 53.
8. Wasilewski, p. 751; cf. Kętrzyński, Studia..., p. 311; and Abraham, p. 84
9. Karwowski, Najstarsi..., p. 332
10. Wasilewski, p. 751
11. Abraham, p.83; Wasilewski, p. 751
12. Wasilewski, s. 752; cf. Walter Gesler (ed.): Der Bericht des Monachus Hamerslebiensis uber die "Kaiserliche Kapelle" S. Simon und Juda in Goslar und die Beforderung ihrer Mitglieder, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat, 1914, p. 84.
13. Papal legate Gualon deposed two out of only four Polish bishops in 1103. One of them was Czasław of Kraków, the identity of the second one is uncertain, it may have been bishop of Poznań or of Płock.
14. Wasilewski, s. 752
15. Abraham, p. 83-84; Wasilewski, p. 748
16. Cf. Maciejewski, p. 253
17. He appears in one undated document (issued certainly after 1187, probably in 1192) and in the bull of Celestine III dated 9 April 1193. He died on 10 December of uncertain year
18. He first appears in the bull of Innocent III dated 2 August 1201
19. "Bishop Stanisław Dzedziński" Catholic-Hierarchy.org . David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 March 2016

References

• Official site of Archbishopric of Poznań
• Regesta Imperii (Papstregesten 911-1024 and Papstregesten 1024–1058)
• Paul Fridolin Kehr, Das Erzbistum Magdeburg und die erste Organisation der Christlichen Kirche in Polen, Abhandlungen der Königlich preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1920
• Władysław Abraham, Organizacja Kościoła w Polsce do połowy wieku XII, Lwów 1890
• Stanisław Karwowski, Najstarsi Długoszowi biskupi poznańscy wobec krytyki , Roczniki Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk Poznańskiego T.35, Poznań 1909
• Stanisław Karwowski, Biskupi poznańscy z XII i początku XIII wieku , Roczniki Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk Poznańskiego T.37, Poznań 1911
• Stanisław Karwowski, Biskupi poznańscy z drugiej połowy XIII wieku , Roczniki Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk Poznańskiego T.43, Poznań 1915
• Annales Lubinensis in: Monumenta Poloniae Historica = Pomniki dziejowe Polski. T. 5, p. 866 ff.
• T. Wojciechowski, Szkice Historyczne XI wieku, Kraków 1904
• KODEKS DYPLOMATYCZNY WIELKOPOLSKI. TOM I.
• Karol Maleczyński: Studia nad dokumentem polskim, Wrocław 1971
• Wojciech Kętrzyński: Studyja nad dokumentami XII wieku, Roczniki Akademii Umiejętności, Lwów 1891, pp. 201–319
• Jacek Maciejewski: Episkopat polski doby dzielnicowej, 1180–1320, Tow. Nauk. Societas Vistulana, 2003
• Tadeusz Wasilewski: Kościół monarszy w X-XII wieku i jego zwierzchnik biskup polski, Kwartalnik historyczny, Tom 92, 1985