Feliks Turski

Feliks Paweł Turski
Bishop of Krakow
Wearing the Order of the White Eagle
Predecessor	Kajetan Sołtyk
Successor	Andrzej Gawroński
Previous post(s)	Crown Tribunal, Bishop of Chełm, Bishop of Łuck
Personal details
Born	1729
Died	1800
Denomination	Catholic Church
Coat of arms

Feliks Paweł Turski (1729–1800) was a Polish clergyman who was Bishop of Kraków from 1790 to 1800.

Turski was born in 1729 to the nobility. He studied theology in Rome.[1] In 1764, he was elected president of the Crown Tribunal.[2] In the following years, he became Bishop of Chełm and Bishop of Łuck. As Bishop of Chełm, he functioned as a buffer to Nikolai Vasilyevich Repnin's political influence.[3] As Bishop of Łuck, he approved the foundation of a seminary for the Vincentians in 1771.[4]

In July 1789, King Poniatowski asked Turski to accept the bishopric of Kraków. In the fall of that year, the estates of the bishopric were divided, and the total estate income of the bishopric was capped at 100,000 złotys. It was then expected that the new bishop would select the new estates of the bishopric while adhering to this new income maximum. Turski initially wavered, but he became bishop in 1790.[5]

Turski died in 1800.[2]

Legacy

Turski appears in Constitution of 3 May 1791, a painting by Jan Matejko.[6]

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  Left of center, wearing a purple mitre

References

1. Pruszkowski, J. (1897). Janów Biskupi czyli Podlaski: z dawnych i współczesnych źródeł. Poland: Gebethner. p. 88 – via Google Books.
2. Adamowicz, Adam; Orgelbrand, S (1867). Encyklopedyja powszechna. Vol. 25. Warsaw: Nakład, druk i własność S. Orgelbranda. p. 765. OCLC 741865525.
3. Steed, H. W., Phillips, W. A., Hannay, D. (1914). A Short History of Austria-Hungary and Poland. United Kingdom: Encyclopaedia Britannica Company. p. 131 – via Google Books.
4. Mezzadri, Luigi; Onnis, Francesca (2012). "20: Polish seminaries directed by the Vincentians". The Vincentians: A General History of the Congregation of the Mission: Volume 6 - The Eighteenth Century to 1789 (ebook). New City Press – via Google Books.
5. Butterwick, R. (2012). The Polish Revolution and the Catholic Church, 1788-1792: A Political History. United Kingdom: OUP Oxford. p. 157. ISBN 9780199250332.
6. "Jan Matejko, "Konstytucja 3 Maja 1791 roku"". culture.pl. Retrieved 2024-12-22.