Oporovsky, Andrzej

The representative of the Polish gentry Opora family coat of arms " Sulima ". Son of Lenchitsky governor Peter Opora (about 1405 - 1467 ). The brothers are the governor of Brzesz-Kujawski Jan Oporovsky and the Castellan Brzesz-Kujawski Nikolai Oporawski.

From 1455 he studied at the University of Krakow , received a bachelor 's degree in February 1458 , and in January 1460 he was promoted to Master of Arts. He continued his studies at the University of Bologna , where he received his LL.D. degree in 1462 .

At the beginning of his career, Andrzej Opora had many beneficiaries. In 1460 he became a canon of Krakow. In August 1463, he became a cantor of the Wloclaw pulpit. In 1464 he received the rank of canon of Gnieznensky and tries to get the rank of canon of the Lenchitsky chapter . In 1465 he led a longstanding dispute over the Gnozno canonical with several priests, including Jakub of Sienna and Vincent Kelbasa . In 1465 he became a canon of Plock and a scholastic from Krakow . In 1466, as a cantor of Włocławski, he asked the Vatican for the post of archdeacon of Gniezna and the dean of Lenchitsky, who were lost by Jan Penojek because of the murder. The Pope began to consider the request. On February 14, 1466, Andrzej Oporovsky promised to pay annates for the Lenchitsky dean's office , which he received on June 11, 1467 . In June 1466, he turned the Włocław cantorium into a canonical led by Jan Gorsky. He was also an archdeacon of Kalisz .

He began a political career with a job in the royal office, probably after returning from school in Italy. In 1464, Andrzej Oporawski was already the royal secretary, as the royal ambassador he traveled to the Gnezno headquarters , recommending that Gniezno Jan Gruschinsky be elevated to the rank of archbishop. In 1470, as a royal ambassador, he traveled to the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order Heinrich Reffle von Richtenberg .

In 1471, after the death of the Bishop of Plock , Sciebor of Gotzenczy, Andrzej Oporowski, with the support of King Casimir Jagiellónczyc, was elected as a Plock presidency as bishop . As a result of the intervention of the German Emperor Frederick III and Pope Sixt IV, Andrzej Oporawski was not allowed to enter the Plotz bishopric, which was eventually led by the Prince of Mazovia, Casimir Plotsky . In the same 1471, the Pope appointed Andrzej Oporowski as a candidate for the Warmian bishopric, transferring the then Bishop of the Warmian Nicholas Tungen to the bishopric in Kamne-Pomorski . However, Nikolai Tungen refused to execute the decision of the pope and did not retreat under the threats of King Casimir Yagellonchik , which led to the so-called "War of the Priests" (1478-1479). Prussian camps in the Piotrków Diet in March 1472 spoke out against the candidature of Andrzej Oporowski and supported Nicholas Tüngen, who captured a large part of Warmia. Kazimir Jagiellonczyc recognized Andrzej Oporawski as the legal bishop of Warmia. At the end of 1472, Oporovsky went to Rome , where he was recognized as the Bishop of Warmia. In March 1473, he returned to Poland, but was unable to assume a position that was in the hands of a competitor. In 1479, Nikolai Tungen finally secured the rank of Bishop of Warmia.

After being appointed to the bishops, the Warmian posts of canon of Wloclaw, Plock, and Krushwitz were taken by Andrzej Boryshevsky . Jan Penojek began to apply for the position of dean of Lenchitsky, who asked his father. In June 1471, Andrzej Oporowski entered into a dispute over the Poznan canonical with Jan of Lukow, who already had this prebendu . In January 1472, Oporovsky abandoned the archdeacon of Gnezno.

Later Andrzej Oporavskiy actively participated in political activities. In 1476, he accompanied the king at the time of the annexation of the Sochaczew land to the royal possessions, and was at the congress of the Prussian camps in Malbork . In May 1477 he traveled to the Saxon princes, in 1476 and 1477 he headed the embassy to the German emperor Frederick III of Habsburg , in 1479 took part in the wedding of the royal daughter Sophia Jagiellon with Frederick , son of the margrave Albrecht of Brandenburg in the Frankfen. .

In the middle of 1479, Andrzej Oporaski was appointed sub - chancellor of the crown from Stanislav Kurozventsky , who became the great chancellor of the crown.

On October 5, 1476, at the request of the Polish king, Andrzej Oporawski was appointed pope by the Roman administrator of the Pshemysl diocese, and on October 1, 1479, the pope approved him as the bishop of Pshemysl . After Zbigniew Olesnitsky joined the archbishop of Gneznensky at the end of 1480, the king appointed him bishop of Kujawski. On October 12, 1481, Oporovsky received papal approval. Absorbed in public affairs, he did not deal with the Włocław eparchy and never visited it. Until the middle of 1480, Andrzej Oporowski was in Poland, later, in 1483, he constantly attended King Casimir Jagiellon in Lithuania, where he supervised the work of the royal office. Then he came to Poland twice for a while. In December, 1480, he was in Torun , and in January, 1481, in the headman of Krushvytsky (which he kept with his brothers), from where he went to Lithuania. In July 1481 he was in Wloclawek in an unknown case.

He died in Merkin in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania after April 25 and until May 7, 1483 . At his own request, he was buried in Wloclaw Cathedral in the presbytery in front of a large altar. Before his death, he made a will. 1000 Hungarian zlotys allocated for the construction of a chapel in Wloclaw Cathedral and decoration of the altar of St. Fabian and St. Sebastian. 1000 Hungarian zloty bequeathed to the king, the rest of the money and things divided between relatives, friends, servants and beggars. The church in Oporuve bequeathed 200 hryvnia for the finishing of the chapel and presented it with its own library. The property inherited from the father, the castle of Krushvitsa and the cities: Krushvitsa , Gebice and Skulsk with villages were divided between his brother, the governor of Brzesc-Kujawski, Jan Opora, and his nephew Andrzej Oporowski, the next governor of Lenchitsa.

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