Feliks Paweł Turski (1729–1800) was a Polish clergyman who was Bishop of Kraków from 1790 to 1800.
Turski was born in 1729 to the nobility. He studied theology in Rome.Pruszkowski, J. (1897). Janów Biskupi czyli Podlaski: z dawnych i współczesnych źródeł. Poland: Gebethner. p. 88 – via Google Books. In 1764, he was elected president of the Crown Tribunal. In the following years, he became Bishop of Chełm and Bishop of Łuck. As Bishop of Chełm, he functioned as a buffer to Nikolai Vasilyevich Repnin's political influence.Steed, H. W., Phillips, W. A., Hannay, D. (1914). A Short History of Austria-Hungary and Poland. United Kingdom: Encyclopaedia Britannica Company. p. 131 – via Google Books. As Bishop of Łuck, he approved the foundation of a seminary for the Vincentians in 1771.
In July 1789, King Poniatowski asked Turski to accept the bishopric of Kraków. In the fall of that year, the estates of the bishopric were divided, and the total estate income of the bishopric was capped at 100,000 złotys. It was then expected that the new bishop would select the new estates of the bishopric while adhering to this new income maximum. Turski initially wavered, but he became bishop in 1790.Butterwick, R. (2012). The Polish Revolution and the Catholic Church, 1788-1792: A Political History. United Kingdom: OUP Oxford. p. 157. .
Turski died in 1800.
Legacy Turski appears in Constitution of 3 May 1791, a painting by Jan Matejko.
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