Aleksander of Malonne

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Aleksander of Malonne or Alexander of Malonne was a twelfth-century Walloon bishop of Płock, Poland.

Image:Katedra-Płock14.JPG.]] He was bishop from 1129 to 1156 AD and was responsible for the construction of the current Cathedral of Płock in 1144.{{Cite web |url=http://www.diecezja.plock.pl/index.php?show=parafia&dekanat=26¶fia=131 |title=Rys historyczny |access-date=2013-06-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517233726/http://www.diecezja.plock.pl/index.php?show=parafia&dekanat=26¶fia=131 |archive-date=2008-05-17 |url-status=dead }} Aleksander is depicted in a figurative bas-relief on the original cathedral doors now in Velikiy Novgorod. Depiction here is a copy currently hanging in Płock.

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before=Szymon h. Gozdawa|

title=Bishop of Płock |

years= 1129-1156|

after=Werner Roch}}

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Category:Bishops of Płock

Category:Year of birth unknown

Category:1156 deaths

Category:12th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Poland

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