Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko

January Maurycy Paweł Cardinal de Puzyna Kosielsko (* September 13 1842 in Gwoździec, Galicia, † September 8, 1911 in Kraków ) was bishop of Krakow.

Life

Puzyna received on 1 December 1878, the priesthood and was already eight years later, was appointed titular bishop of Memphis and Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv on 26 February 1886. The bishop He was ordained on 25 March by the Archbishop of Gniezno, Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledochowski; Co-consecrators were Archbishop Emeritus of Lviv, Josyf Sembratowicz, and the Archbishop of Prague and later cardinal, Francis of Paula Schönborn.

On January 22, 1895, he was appointed bishop of Krakow and included as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santi Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio e Protasio in the College of Cardinals on 15 April 1901.

Puzyna was the last person who held a national veto in a conclave. In 1903, he put in the order of Emperor Franz Josef I. against the election of Cardinal Rampolla Mariano del Tindaros Pope raised an objection. Instead, chose the College of Cardinals Giuseppe Sarto as Pope Pius X, who, immediately abolishing the veto power of secular rulers, Exclusive.

In the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria he possessed as bishop of Cracow on a Virilstimme in the Galician parliament.