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Stefan Aleksander Zwierowicz
Stefan Aleksander Zwierowicz (26 December 1842 – 3 January 1908) was a Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Sandomierz and of the Diocese of Vilnius. BiographyZwierowicz was born in Wyrozęby.[1] He attended high school in Białystok, from which he graduated in 1861. After this, he attended the seminary in Vilnius,[2] graduating in 1864. He then began to attend the seminary in St. Petersburg, where he was ordained in 1869. He completed his studies in 1870, attaining a magister degree in theology.[3] In April the same year, Zwierowicz was appointed a professor at the seminary in Vilnius,[3] where he taught the history of the Catholic Church as well as theology and exegesis.[4] He also served as rector of a local high school between 1877 and 1878, and would later become rector of the seminary between 1882 and 1883.[3] In 1887, Zwierowicz was made canon of the cathedral in Vilnius; he was made administrator of the Diocese in Vilnius in 1897,[5] succeeding Ludwik Zdanowicz. In April that year, he was appointed Bishop of Vilnius; he was consecrated in November in St. Petersburg by Mečislovas Leonardas Paliulionis, Bishop of Samogitia.[6] In 1902, he was exiled to Tver for issuing a letter to the clergy of the Diocese of Vilnius that condemned the Russification of schools within the diocese.[7] In September, he was appointed by Pope Leo XIII as Bishop of Sandomierz.[8] He assumed control of the diocese on 30 December.[9] Zwierowicz died in 1908 and was buried at the cathedral in Sandomierz.[10] References
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