Stanislaus of Szczepanów

Stanislaus of Szczepanów (1030–1079) was bishop of Kraków and one of the earliest native Polish bishops. Educated at Gniezno and probably Paris, he became a Kraków canon known for his preaching and was elected bishop in 1072, accepting only at the command of Pope Alexander II.

As advisor to Bolesław II he helped bring papal legates to Poland and restore the archiepiscopal see of Gniezno, a precondition of the 1076 coronation. After a conflict with Bolesław, he was executed in 1079. Canonized in 1253, he is a patron saint of Poland.