He held a position at the court of the King of Poland August II and was a secretary to the Under Chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
He was a friend of the Polish general, poet and political figure Józef Wybicki and a supporter of the Bar Confederation, an association of Polish nobles organized to defend the internal and external independence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth against Russian influence.
He backed August III for King of Poland and opposed the Czartoryski family.
[3] As a result of these activities, even during his life he was referred to as "The Great Abbot of the (Polish) Republic" (Wielki Opat Rzeczypospolitej).
[4] After the First Partition of Poland, the Prussian occupation authorities disbanded the Oliwa Monastery and seized the properties of the order, paying compensation equal to only a small fraction of actual value.