Kariery biskupów z rodu Paców w XVI i XVII w.
The Careers of Bishops from the Pac Family during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Summary/Abstract: The achievements and careers of clergymen from the Pac family (Pacai in Lithuanian) in state and ecclesiastical structures indicate their significance and position in the system of power at that time. Without doubt the seventeenth century was for the Pac family a golden baroque age. Nevertheless, the previous century also merits examination. The article seeks to identify the factors conditioning careers in the context of the position of the family and to characterize the bishops (or nominated bishops) from this family. Over a period of more than a hundred years, it is possible to observe a slow and far from stable process in which the Pac bishops aimed less to wield power than to satisfy their own ambitions. These, during this century, turned upside down.

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