Krąg rodzinny Giovanniego Battisty Lancellottiego, 31. nuncjusza apostolskiego w Polsce

Abstract

One hundred years had passed since the nunciature was opened without any documents to inform about that ceremony. And the permanent residential nunciature had been functioning in the country on the Vistula river, and it was then that an Italian bishop Noli, Giovanni Battista Lancellotti (1575-1655), was made the thirty first nuncio in Poland. He was the eighth nuncio who was to reside in Warsaw, the new capital of Poland. His life and rich pastoral-diplomatic activity in the context of home history and socio-political and church conditions have been discussed in the present paper. It is based, above all, on the rich sources and available literature.