Paweł Holszański

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Paweł Holszański (1485-1555) was a notable^{[[Citing sources citation needed]]} Catholic church official and the last male successor of the, once mighty, Holszański princely family of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Between 1507 and 1536 he served as a bishop of Łuck (modern Lutsk, Ukraine) and then between March 15, 1536 and his death a bishop of Wilno (modern Vilnius, Lithuania).

During his term, Holszański erected several dozens of new parochs in the Polish-Lithuanian borderland. He was also responsible for convincing the king to expel Stanisław Rafajłowicz and Abraham Kulwieć, two of the pioneers of Calvinism in Poland. He died September 4, 1555.

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