Piotr Parczewski
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Piotr Parczewski (Belarusian: Пётр Парчэўскі, romanized: Petar Parcheўskі, Lithuanian: Petras Parčevskis; 1590 – 6 December 1658) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Smolensk and the Bishop of Samogitia (now Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kaunas). He was also a royal secretary and a Catholic convert from Orthodoxy.
Biography
Parczewski was born in an Orthodox family. After the adoption of Catholicism, he entered in the seminary of
Charles X Gustav of Sweden. On October 20 of that year, he signed the Union of Kėdainiai
which established the Swedish–Lithuanian union. Parczewski died on 6 December 1658.
Sources
- Henry Lulewicz, Peter Parczewski, in Polish Biographical Dictionary, Volume XXV, 1980, pp. 210–212.
- Hierarchy medii Catholica et recentioris Aevi, Volume IV, Monasteri 1935, p 318 (Latin).
- Hierarchy of Catholica medii et recentioris Aevi, Volume IV, Monasteri 1935, p 304.