Pełka (archbishop of Gniezno)

Pełka or Fulko (died April 5, 1258, in Łęczyca) was the Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland in 1232–1258.

[2][3] As Archbishop, Pełka continued the reforms initiated by Henryk Kietlicz and supported a centralised monarchy rather than the fragmented state.

In 1238, Pope Gregory IX allowed the wearing of the cross metropolitan and he probably participated in the 1245 deliberations of the Council of Lyon and in 1253 he consecrated the first bishop of Lithuania, Dominican friar Wit (Vitas).

Pełka died April 5, 1258, in Łęczyca and was buried in the Gniezno Cathedral.

[1] A commission was appointed by Pope Innocent IV to examine the life of Pełka with a view to canonisation.