Michał Nowodworski

Michał Nowodworski (1831–1896) was a 19th-century Roman Catholic bishop of Płock in Poland.

[1] Michael Nowodworski was born on 27 July 1831 in Włocławek; he was Bishop of Płock, a publisher and a publicist.

He was ordained in 1854 and from 1859, he began working with a journal Diary Religion and Moral.

In 1889, he became the bishop of the Diocese of Płock, where his particular attention was on raising the standards of the local seminary, and to increase intellectual culture of the clergy.

He died on 12 June 1896 in Warsaw and was buried in the Cathedral of Płock, where a bronze gravestone made by Pius Weloński stands in the church nave.