Lubieniecius Andrew , (Polon. Lubienietzki, or Lubieniecki,) a Polish Knight, was the son of Stanislaus Lubieniecius ; and is said, by Polish writers, to have been related to the royal family of the Leszczynskis. Having relinquished his station at Court, he took a warm interest in the diffusion of Unitarianism, and devoted the rest of his life to its propagation. He sustained the office, first of a Synodical or General Deacon, and afterwards that of a Pastor among the Unitarians. He was one of the earliest of the Ministers at Smigel, but not the first, as some have supposed;  for John Krotovius, or Grotkovius, was stationed there in 1580, and does not appear to have left till 1584. (Vide Art. 89.) Bock says, that Andrew Lubieniecius was called from Smigel, to preside over the ministry in the district of Lublin and Hoscia, (written Hosia by Sandius, B. A. p. 89,) in the year 1592; and Smalcius, in his Diary, says, that in 1608 he succeeded Morscovius, the Junior Minister of Hoystra, which Zeltner supposes to be the same place as the Hosia of Sandius. (Hist. Crypto-Socinismi, Supplem. p. 1184, Not. b.) He lived upon his own property, and declined receiving any remuneration for his services, on which account he is not mentioned so often as he would otherwise have been, in the Church writings of the Socinians. He died at Siedliski, near Lublin, at the house of his son-in-law, Joachim Rupnovius, in the year 1623, at the age of seventy-one, or seventy-two ; and left behind him the following manuscript works.

1. A Treatise on the Millennary Reign of Christ. In this Treatise he advocated the notion of an earthly Millennium, which he afterwards abandoned.

2. Commentaries on the Apocalypse of St. John in the Polish language.

3. Polono-Eutychia ; also in Polish.

4. Chronicon, or a Description of the Kingdom of God, commencing with the Nativity of our King and Lord, Jesus Christ; also in Polish.

5. A Catalogue of Disputations, which the Unitarian Polish Brethren have held with their Opponents.

6. A Book containing the Acts and Decisions of the Synods, held from the Beginning of the Reformation in Poland. This was continued by his son-in-law, Joachim Rupnovius, and others; and considerable use was made of it by his great nephew, Stanislaus Lubieniecius, the younger, in his "History of the Polish Reformation," and by Bock, in his "Bibliotheca Antitrinitariorum, maxime Socinianorum."

7. Historical Observations on Matters worthy of Notice in the Business of Religion.

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