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John Chojeński was a sixteenth century Polish bureaucrat and church leader. and beatified person.
He was born into the Abdank noble family on 17 March 1486 in the town of Golejówku near Sieradza in Malopolska and earned a doctor of laws at the University of Siena.
He was Chancellor of the Crown, and after 1526, secretary of the king. bishop of Przemysl from 1531, Bishop of Plock from 1535, and latter the bishop 1537 and archdeacon of Krakow.
A trusted official of King Sigismund I the Old, he defended the privileges of the church and having a doctor of laws focused around Poland’s intellectual elite and supported many eminent humanists of his day. He founded a scholarship to honour Marcin Kromer, allowing a student to study in Padua and supported professor of medicine Joseph Ostrich.
At the The Diet Piotrkow in 1538, which dealt with restrictions on the economic rights of the Jews he made a speech demanding the expulsion of the Jews from Poland. The next day (11 March 1538) he was dead. This became the basis for devising suspicion that he was poisoned. He was buried behind the altar in the Wawel Cathedral. Currently his tombstone is in King John Albert Chapel in Wawel Cathedral (formerly Bożego Ciała).