Person

Aleksander Kakowski

1862–1938 · 20th century

Aleksander Kakowski was a Polish Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Warsaw from 1913 and a cardinal from 1919. In 1917–18 he was one of the three members of the Regency Council of the German- and Austrian-sponsored Kingdom of Poland, which in November 1918 handed power to Józef Piłsudski. He remained Archbishop of Warsaw until his death in 1938.

Aleksander Kakowski
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Kingdom of Poland (1916-1918)

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