Career
Ankwicz was born in Krakow, Poland in 1777. He was ordained a priest on 2 September 1810. In 1815, he was appointed and ordained archbishop of Lviv in Ukraine.
He remained in this capacity for 18 years until 30 September 1833 when he was appointed the archbishop of Prague.
He died at the age of 60 years on 26 March 1838 to be succeeded in his archbishopric by Alois Josef Schrenk.