PAULOWICH-LUCICH, STEFANO. - Bishop, b. at Macarsca (Spalato) on 7 Aug. 1790, d. at Cattaro on 28 Feb. 1853. Sent to complete his studies at the Seminary of Padua, he was ordained a priest there in 1814. From 1815 to 1823 he lived at Spalato, carrying on pastoral ministry and teaching activity there, and was then admitted to the Institute of sublime ecclesiastical education in Vienna, founded by Abbot Frint, court parish priest, for the purpose of perfecting the best priests of the Habsburg Empire in sacred theology.

The following year he received the assignment of religious assistance to the Italian political prisoners of Spielberg and he continued in that mission for the space of four years, through ten successive stays at Brno. Perhaps political and nationalist preoccupations prevailed over the P. in this office, and although the gratuitous accusation of having broken the seal of confession does not hold, there are certainly to be deplored the P.'s scant tact with the detainees, his investigations more police-like than priestly, his interference with the political and prison authorities, and the counsels of severity addressed to the Emperor even when the sovereign was disposed to clemency: this results, besides from the accusations brought against him by various prisoners in their memoirs (Pellico, Maroncelli, Pallavicino, Confalonieri and especially Andryane), also from the official documents of the Archives of Moravia.

Court chaplain in 1825, he was appointed in 1827 by Francis I as bishop of Cattaro, according to the law then in force, and confirmed by Leo XII on 28 Jan. 1828. The P. took possession of his diocese in the following autumn, but in 1833, following a rigorous inquiry conducted by the nuncio in Vienna, Gregory XVI ordered his removal, because the P. showed himself too devoted to the civil authorities, with grave prejudice to the rights of the Church. With difficulty Francis I obtained that the P. be spared so grave a measure and that the Holy See content itself with accepting his resignation.

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BIBL.: V. Brunelli, Mons. S. P.-L., in Riv. Dalmatica, 2 (1902, v): the cited autobiographical memoirs of the prisoners of Spielberg and in partic. le Mie prigioni by S. Pellico edited by D. Chiattone, Saluzzo 1907, pp. 400-406; D. Scioscioli, Il dramma del Risorgimento sulle vie dell'etilio, II, 1, Rome 1941, pp. 210-11; unpublished official documents at the Comitato naz. di studi spielberghiani.

Renzo U. Montini

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