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POPE CLEMENT X
Clement, Bishop, Servant of the Servants of God, to our beloved sons, the people of the city and [diocese] of Lviv, greetings and apostolic blessing. Today, having consulted our brothers and by the fullness of our apostolic authority, we have released our venerable brother Albert, Archbishop of Lviv, then Bishop of Kamianets, from the bond by which he was bound to the aforementioned Church of Kamianets, which he then headed, [...] and by the same counsel and authority, we have transferred him to your Church of Lviv – which was recently led by Jan, Archbishop of Lviv, of holy memory, and which, upon the death of the said Archbishop Jan, who paid the debt of nature outside the Roman Curia, was deprived of the comfort of a shepherd – and we have established him as its archbishop and shepherd, entrusting to him the full care and administration of the said Church in spiritual and temporal matters, as is more fully contained in our letters drawn up for this occasion. Therefore, we admonish and earnestly encourage your prudence, commanding you through apostolic letters, that by receiving the said Archbishop Albert with devotion as the father and shepherd of your souls and surrounding him with due respect, you may be humbly obedient to his salutary admonitions and commands, so that the same Archbishop Albert may rejoice in having found in you sons of devotion, and you in him a constant [benevolent?] father of piety. Given in Rome at Saint Mary Major, in the year of the Lord's Incarnation one thousand six hundred and seventy, on the day before the Kalends of July [June 30], in the first year of our pontificate.
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[Archival note from the 17th/18th century:] Bull of H.H. Pope Clement X [...] Regarding the Archbishopric of Lviv, A.D. 1670
[Other signatures:] No. 88, No. 55, to bundle 142, 1670, A. Arch. E.
[Round ink stamp:] ARCHIVE OF ANCIENT RECORDS OF THE CITY OF LVIV
[Lead seal on a hemp cord:]
[Obverse:] Heads of St. Peter and St. Paul separated by a cross, above the letters: [S P]A [S P]E
[Reverse:] KLE/MENS/PAPA/· X ·
Original wording — transcription
CLEMENS PP X
Clemens ep[iscopu]s servus servor[um] Dei dilectis filiis populo civitatis et [dioecesis] Leopolien[sis] salut[em] et ap[ostoli]cam ben[edictionem]. Hodie ven[erabilem] fratrem n[ost]r[u]m Albertum Archiep[iscop]um Leopolien[sem], tunc ep[iscop]um Camenecen[sem] a vinculo quo dictae eccl[esi]ae Camenecen[si] cui tunc praeerat tenebatur de fratrum n[ost]ror[um] consilio et ap[ostoli]cae potestatis plenitudine absolven[do] teq[ue?] illum ad Eccl[esi]am v[est]ram Leopolien[sem] cui bonae memoriae Joannes Archiep[iscop]us Leopolien[sis] nuper praesidebat per obitum dicti Joannis Archiep[iscop]i qui extra Romanam Curiam debitum naturae persolvit pastoris solatio destitutam de simili consilio et auctoritate transtulim[us], ipsumq[ue] illi in Archiep[iscop]um praefecim[us] et pastorem curam et administrationem ipsius Eccl[esi]ae sibi in sp[irit]ualib[us] et t[em]poralib[us] plenarie committendo prout in n[ost]ris inde confectis l[itte]ris plenius continetur. Quocirca discretioni vestrae monem[us] et hortamur attente vobis per ap[ostoli]ca scripta mandantes quatenus eundem Albertum Archiep[iscop]um tanquam patrem et pastorem animar[um] v[est]rar[um] devote suscipientes et debita honorificentia prosequentes eius monitis et mandatis salubribus hum[iliter] intendatis, itaq[ue] idem Albertus Archiep[iscop]us in vobis devotionis filios et vos in eo patrem assiduos pietatis [benevolum?] invenisse gaudeatis. Dat[um] Romae apud S[anctam] Mariam Maiorem anno Incarnationis Dominicae millesimo sexcentesimo septuagesimo, pridie Kal[endas] Julii, pontificatus n[ost]ri anno primo.
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[Nota archiwalna z XVII/XVIII w.:] Bulla S. Clementis X P.P. [...] Super Archiepiscopatu[m] Leopol[iensem] A.D. 1670
[Inne sygnatury:] No 88, Nro 55, ad Fasc[iculum] 142, 1670, A. Arch. E.
[Pieczęć tuszowa okrągła:] ARCHIWUM AKT DAWNYCH MIASTA LWOWA
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[Awers:] Głowy św. Piotra i św. Pawła przedzielone krzyżem, powyżej litery: [S P]A [S P]E
[Rewers:] CLE/MENS/PAPA/· X ·
Reading notes
Papal bull of Clement X addressed to the people of the Archdiocese of Lviv, notifying them of the transfer of Albert Koryciński, Bishop of Kamianets, to the archiepiscopal see of Lviv, vacant after the death of Archbishop Jan Tarnowski. The document is preserved in its entirety, the parchment is clean, with a well-preserved lead seal of Pope Clement X on a hemp cord.
