Marcin Białobrzeski
Marcin Białobrzeski (1530–1586) was a 16th-century Polish bishop, bibliophile, author, theologian, and preacher. Białobrzeski was born in 1530 in Białobrzegi (modern-day Tomaszów Mazowiecki) into the Abdank Noble Family. Career Church career He took religious vows in the Cistercian Monastery of Sulejów and was educated at the expense of the monastery in the Krakow Academy of Literature. He was a relative of Andrzej Spot. After Spot's death in 1559, Białobrzeski was elected abbot, and in 1565 or 1566, he was appointed Suffragan bishop at Krakow, as well as Titular Bishop of Laodicea in Phrygia. In 1571, he joined the cathedral chapter. On 19 July 1577, Bialobrzeski was appointed Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi (Kamieniec), Ukraine. On 7 April 1576, he greeted Stefan Batory at Mogiła Abbey. Shortly afterwards he was installed to the see of Kamieniec-Podolsk. Along with Lukasz Podolski, a canon of Kraków Cathedral, he participated in the 1557 Synod in Northern Poland, and a year later in the Synod in Jędrzejów. Political and diplomatic roles He was a representative of the clergy in 1573 at the Sejm (parliament), and after the coronation of Henry of Valois as King of Poland on 13 February 1574, he delivered an oration at the funeral