Jan Baikowski

{{Short description|Polish Roman Catholic prelate}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | honorific-prefix = Most Reverend | name = Jan Baikowski | title = | other_names = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | church = Catholic Church | archdiocese = | diocese = Diocese of Poznań | see = | term = 1626–1651 | predecessor = | successor =  | ordination = | ordained_by = | consecration = 1 May 1627 | consecrated_by = Cosimo de Torres | cardinal = | created_cardinal_by = | rank =  | birth_date = 1590 | birth_place = Podlackiae, Poland | death_date = 1651 (age 61) | death_place = Poznań, Poland | previous_post = | nationality = | religion = | ethnicity = }}

'''Jan Baikowski''' (1590–1651) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Titular Bishop of ''Aenus'' (1626–1651) and Auxiliary Bishop of Poznań (1626–1651).<ref name=HierarchiaIV>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol04eubeuoft|last1=Gauchat|first1=Patritius (Patrice)|title=HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol IV|pages=70|date=1935|publisher=Libraria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|ISBN=}} ''(in Latin)''</ref><ref name=CathHierJanBaik>[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbaik.html "Bishop Jan Baikowski"] ''Catholic-Hierarchy.org''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved January 4, 2017</ref><ref name="CathHierPoznań">[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dp232.html "Diocese of Poznań"] ''Catholic-Hierarchy.org''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016</ref><ref name="GCathPoznań">[http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/pozn0.htm "Metropolitan Archdiocese of Poznań"] ''GCatholic.org''. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016</ref><ref name=CathHierAenus>[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d4a49.html "Aenus (Titular See)"] ''Catholic-Hierarchy.org''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016</ref><ref name=GCathAenus>[http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0717.htm "Titular Archiepiscopal See of Ænus"] ''GCatholic.org''. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016</ref>

==Biography== Jan Baikowski was born in Podlackiae, Poland in 1590.<ref name=CathHierJanBaik /> On 2 December 1626, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Titular Bishop of ''Aenus'' and Auxiliary Bishop of Poznań.<ref name=HierarchiaIV /><ref name=CathHierJanBaik /> On 1 May 1627, he was consecrated bishop by Cosimo de Torres, Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio, with Joannes Mattaeus Caryophyllis, Titular Archbishop of ''Iconium'', and Germanicus Mantica, Titular Bishop of ''Famagusta'', serving as co-consecrators.<ref name=CathHierJanBaik /> He served as Auxiliary Bishop of Poznań until his death in 1651.<ref name=HierarchiaIV /><ref name=CathHierJanBaik />

==Episcopal succession== {| role="presentation" class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"| ! style="background:#F5DEB3"| <small>Episcopal succession of Jan Baikowski</small> |- | While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of:<ref name=CathHierJanBaik /> *Andrzej Szołdrski, Bishop of Kyiv (1634); *Jan Lipski, Bishop of Chelmno (1636); and *Zygmunt Miaskowski, Titular Bishop of ''Chersonesus in Zechia'' (1645). |}

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Baikowski, Jan}} Category:17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Category:Bishops appointed by Pope Urban VIII Category:1590 births Category:1651 deaths