Christopher Szwernicki

Father
Christopher Szwernicki
Born(1814-09-08)September 8, 1814
Varnupiai
DiedNovember 26, 1894(1894-11-26) (aged 80)
Irkutsk
Cause of deathbrutally beating
Known forApostle of Siberia
ReligionRoman Catholic
Congregations served
Congregation of Marian Fathers

Father Christopher Szwernicki /ʃvɛərnɪtski/ ⓘ (Lithuanian: Kristupas Švernickis; September 8, 1814 – November 26, 1894) was a Polish–Lithuanian priest of the Congregation of Marian Fathers. In 1849, he was deported to Irkutsk, where he worked until his death as a parish priest of the largest parish in the world (which occupied all of Siberia from the Arctic Ocean to China). In 1888 he was dubbed "Apostle of Siberia" by Pope Leo XIII.

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