Michał Jerzy Poniatowski
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Prince Michał Jerzy Poniatowski (12 October 1736 – 12 August 1794) was a Polish nobleman.
Abbot of Tyniec and Czerwińsk (opat tyniecki i czerwinski), Bishop of Płock and Coadjutor Bishop of Kraków (koadiutor krakowski) from 1773, and Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland from 1784.
He was made a knight of the Order of the White Eagle on 25 November 1764. Nine days later, on 4 December, he was made a prince by his brother, the last king of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski.
He was made a royal member of the Royal Society in 1791.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
References
- Angela Sołtys, Opat z San Michele. Grand Tour prymasa Poniatowskiego i jego kolekcje, Warszawa 2008
- Zofia Zielińska, Poniatowski Michał Jerzy, "Polski Słownik Biograficzny", XXVII, Wrocław 1983.
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- Ecclesiastical senators of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Archbishops of Gniezno
- Bishops of Płock
- 18th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Poniatowski family
- 1736 births
- 1794 deaths
- Abbots of Czerwińsk
- Abbots of Tyniec
- Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland)
- Clergy from Gdańsk
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- 18th-century Christian abbots