Franciszek Skarbek-Malczewski[1] (4 October 1754 – 18 April 1819) was a Polish Roman Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Warsaw and the primate of Poland from 1818 until his death in 1819.
After his ordination, he purchased a doctorate of both laws on 30 August 1783; this was noticed by Pope Pius VI, who ordered him to be moved to the cathedral chapter of the Archdiocese of Gniezno,[2] to which he had been appointed a canon on 27 April 1780.
[7] In 1818, Malczewski was appointed by Pope Pius VII to serve as an apostolic delegate to reorganize the administrative divisions of the church in Congress Poland.
[6] He was appointed the first archbishop of Warsaw and primate of Poland by decree of Tsar Alexander I on 31 July 1818 and by the Holy See on 2 October 1818.
He received his pallium at St. John's Archcathedral in Warsaw on 26 December 1818,[8] and ceremonially assumed control of the Archdiocese on 1 January 1819.