Priests of Pieranie
(old woj.) Bydgoszcz, Poland

The following is a list of the pastors for the parish of Pieranie, archdiocese of Gniezno.  The dates reflect the year(s) the priest was assigned to the church in Pieranie.  In some instances information not pertaining to Pieranie is included next to the priests' names.

The names and dates were taken from the book, Sanktuarium Maryjne w Pieraniu by Katarzyna Hewner, 1998, Dąbrowa Biskupia, and were transcribed and translated by Debbie Greenlee.


NAME OF PRIEST						DATE IN PIERANIE

Mikołaj							1325-1327
Mikołaj from the heraldic family of Jastrzębiec		XIV - XV centuries
Jan Zaremba						1419
Jakub Wolski						1469
Marcin Zieleniewski					1578
Marcin from Lubień					1621-1622
Jacek Franciszek Centalski				1698-1712
Piotr Paweł Mieszkowski, pastor in
	Kobielice; temporary administrator		1712
Theodor Ruthen, reformer				1712
Andrzej Zawałowicz, vicar in Inowrocław			1712
Adam Marcin Umiński, from the heraldic family
	of Cholewa; born 1685; canon in
	Włocławek; pastor-curator; died 1720		1712-1720
Marcin Piotr Grobelski, born 1691;
	from 1717 was the vicar in Pieranie;
	became pastor of Pieranie in 1720;
	died 1736					1720-1736
Jan Paweł Sadowicz, born 1683 in Bąkowo;
	canon in Kruszwica 1760; died 1763		1737-1763
Stanisław Paciorkowski					1763-1767
Andrzej Raffleski					1768-1769
Wojciech Żurawski, born 1705; rector in
	Kobielice 1763; deacon in Gniewkowo;
	died 1785					1770-1785
Ambrozy Dziczkiewicz, born 1741 in
	Inowrocław;  rector in Kobielice;		1786-1809
Franciszek Piekarski, temporary administrator;
	died 1813					1809-1813
Jakub Bewicz						1813-1826
Celestyn Schwartz, pastor-curator in
	Brudnia (1824-1830)				1826-1827
Józef Petrykowski, pastor-curator			1827
Jan Łukowski, pastor in Górze; pastor-curator		1828-1832
Walenty Żarniewicz, temporary administrator;
	then temporary administrator in
	Siedlimowo					1832-1836
Antoni Amman, temporary administrator;
	from 1849 temporary administrator
	in Chełmce					1836-1850
Jan Łukowski (again)					1851
Augustyn Bulmajer					1852
Stanisław Rosiński, pastor in
	Brudnia (1831-1859); deacon in
	Gniewkowo					1852-1856
Józef Jezierski, vicar in Grabie; pastor in
	Chlewiska (1861-1902); from 1902
	pastor in Orlów					1856
Sergot							1856-1859
Jozafat Pniewski					1859-1867
Jan Lizak, pastor-curator, Fr. "majowczyk";
	afterwards chaplain in Polish colony
	in Berlin					1867-1877
No continuous assignment of priests			1877-1897
Wojciech Szadziński, temporary administrator
	from 1906; pastor in Gozdowo			1897-1906
Mieczysław Bielawski, born 1879;
	mansjonarz  in parish church in Poznan,
	temporary administrator in Pieranie from
	1906; pastor in Pieranie 1909; canon at
	the Collegiate Church of św. Jerzego in
	Gniezno; professor at the Priest’s
	Seminary in Gniezno 1921; died 1923		1906-1917
Stanisław Tylewicz, born in Krotoszyn 1877;
	from 1923 pastor in Siedlce			1917-1923
Tadeusz Farulewski, born in Czempin;
	temporary administrator in Brudnia
	from 1931 where he erected a church
	1925; died in Stutthoff concentration
	camp 19 April 1940				1923-1939
Kazimierz Gliński, born 1911 in Kruszwica;
	pastor in Kościel Kujawski (1958-1965);
	died 1967					1948-1958
Łucjan Żgorzelak, born 1923 in Września;
	canon (as part of a group) in Collegiate
	church in Kruszwica 1988; died
	November 22, 2006 in Gniezno			1958-1999
Wojciech Czechyra					1999-

For more information contact Debbie Greenlee.

Transcription and English translation © 2007 Deborah Greenlee; no claim made to original records; used at this web site by express permission; all other rights reserved.