Aleksander Kakowski


Aleksander Kakowski was a Polish politician, diplomat, a member of the Regency Council and, as Cardinal and Archbishop of Warsaw, the last titular Primate of the Kingdom of Poland before Poland fully regained its independence in 1918.

Aleksander Kakowski was born on February 5, 1862, in Dbiny near Przasnysz, the son of Franciszek Kakowski and Paulina Ossowska. He was ordained a priest on May 30, 1886, in Warsaw, by Cardinal Wincenty ChociakPopiel. The following year he became one of the professors at the Warsaw Theological Seminary. In 1910 he became Rector of the Saint Petersburg Roman Catholic Theological Academy and on July 22, 1913, he was ordained a bishop by Stanisaw Zdzitowiecki. On September 14, 1913, he became the archbishop of Warsaw in St. Johns Cathedral, thus becoming the titular primate of the Kingdom of Poland.

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