Andrzej Chryzostom Załuski

Andrzej Załuski Chrysostom (1650 – 12 May 1711) was a seventeenth-century Polish preacher, translator, prolific writer, Chancellor of the Crown and bishop.

[1] He was born in 1650 in Kiev, into the Junosza noble family, the son of Alexander, a voivodeship governor, and his wife Catherine Olszowskich.

As a priest he travelled, Paris, Netherlands and Rome and after receiving the lower orders became Canon of Kraków (1673).

[6] He is known to have attended Synods in 1693, 1696 and 1698 and built the chapel of the Holy Cross, which he consecrated on 30 September 1709.

Although his was a time of war and plague he managed to undertake significant amount of writing.